Once you are in version extended land, you must go all the way. In other
words, you must also explicitly specify the version of the file.
-- cgOn Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Carl McMullen wrote:
> All: > > I spent some time finding all of our Evil Twins (and triplets and quadruplets) in ClearCase > and now would like to do DIFF's of each in order to decide which one to keep. I put together > a list of Extended Path Names of elements in ClearCase, like the following: > > Z:/Windchill/src/wt/workflow/engine@@/main/r4.0_int_ardenhills/1/engineResource_zh_TW.java > Z:/Windchill/src/wt/workflow/engine@@/main/r4.0_maint_ardenhills/1/engineResource_zh_TW.java > > and would like to run "cleartool diff ..." against them. Naturally I am only able to make one > of these visible at a time in my view and it seems that this fact is keeping from being able > to do a "cleartool diff ..." against the above two Extended Path Names. > > Yes, I could setup two different views, mounted to two different drive letters, and do the > DIFF-ing that way BUT I'm wondering if there is someway to do these DIFF's without using two > views? > > I noticed the "cleartool get ..." command and tried using it to extract the 2 separate > element versions to local files BUT I'm getting an error: > > cleartool get -to foo.out > N:/Windchill/src/wt/workflow/engine@@/main/r4.0_maint_ardenhills/1/engineResource_zh_TW.java > cleartool: Error: Only files are allowed; > "/Windchill/src/wt/workflow/engine@@/main/r4.0_maint_ardenhills/1/engineResource_zh_TW.java" > is a directory. > > You may be wondering about the extended paths I've listed: > > Z:/Windchill/src/wt/workflow/engine@@/main/r4.0_maint_ardenhills/1/engineResource_zh_TW.java > > Yes, this is a directory->branch->version specification, with a filename at the tail end. > This is the syntax I discovered that is necessary in order to refer to a specific element in > ClearCase. I can do a "cleartool describe ..." against this and it works fine BUT "cleartool > get ..." errors as shown above. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance! > > Carl McMullen > Parametric Technology Corp (PTC) > Windchill Integration Team > Arden Hills, MN > cwm@windchill.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ To unsubscribe, send email > to "unsubscribe cciug" (the subject is ignored). You can > also unsubscribe using the sign-up form at the ClearCase > http://clearcase.rational.com/cciug/mailing_list.html >
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