Troubleshooting
Problem
This technote identifies a difference in the default checkin behavior as seen through IBM® Rational® ClearCase® Explorer or Windows® Explorer GUI versus that of the Microsoft® Visual Studio .NET integration with ClearCase.
Resolving The Problem
When using ClearCase Explorer or the Windows Explorer integration with ClearCase, the default behavior during checkin is to NOT Check in if identical to previous version.
This option must be selected, by default, in order to check in identical versions.
Example:
This is not consistent with the default behavior when running the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003 and 2005 integration with ClearCase.
The default behavior is to check in identical.
To change this behavior to be consistent with the ClearCase default option for all checkins, within VS.NET 2002 & 2003 click Tools > Options > Source Control > SCC Provider > Advanced > Operations and uncheck the Checkin even if identical option.
Note: In .NET 2005, the default behavior is the same; however, there is no longer an option to disable the checkin identical feature for all checkins. The difference in .NET 2005 is that you are now prompted during each checkin to choose if you want to checkin identical (whereas in .NET 2002 and 2003 you did not have this option).
You can now uncheck the option for each checkin.
Note: You will need to ensure that ClearCase is configured to Prompt for comment in order to see the window that has the checkin option; otherwise, you will not be prompted to change the option and the checkin will be identical by default. Check the following setting from .NET 2005 as follows:
Tools > Options > ClearCase
Rational ClearCase > General > ClearCase User Options > Operations
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Modified date:
16 June 2018
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