How to update clearcase view via windows command line?

Question

I have a view named "Dev_view" in ClearCase and want to update the view via windows command line. Is there a way to do that?

In particular, what other command can trigger a view update?

Solution

See cleartool update command (for full ClearCase client, not for CCRC)

cd /path/of/your/snapshot/view
cleartool update .

You cal also add the following options:

-ove/rwrite

Overwrites all hijacked files with the version selected by the config spec.

-nov/erwrite

Leaves all hijacked files in the view with their current modifications.

-ren/ame/

Renames hijacked files to filename.keep and copies the version in the VOB selected by the config spec into the view.

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Note that updating the root directory of an UCM view have side-effect: it will re-evaluate the config spec of the view against its associate UCM stream, and will propose to update said config-spec (and proceed with the update).

This isn't the case for a non-UCM view, where a cleartool setcs will always trigger the update after chaging the config spec.

Comments

[Pulak Agrawal]

excellent answer as always (I have stopped trying to respond to clearcase questions as you are always one up :). But this is an RTFM question. Should they be encouraged ?

[VonC]

@PulakAgrawal good point. I have added non-trivial information about this command in my edited answer.

[youR.Fate]

Just so nobody else runs into this problem: if you have a recent version of cleartool, the slashes in the option switches are no longer used, just use -overwrite or -rename etc. Also, you have to put the option before the path, e.g. cleartool update -overwrite ..

[VonC]

@youR.Fate the '/' option? It is a shortcut: cleartool update -ove or cleartool update -nov. Is that shortcut not working with ClearCase 8.x (and rcleartool)?

[youR.Fate]

Oh, I didn't interpret it as a shortcut, i tried cleartool update -ove/rwrite .. That didn't work. Sorry for the confusion.

[VonC]

@youR.Fate no problem. I confirm cleartool update -ove/rwrite wouldn't work, but cleartool update -ove should work.