Rational Clearcase FAQS

• 1.1 UNIX-ish and admin questions
• 1.1.1 How to remove (specify) a file with a name beginning in "-"?
• 1.1.2 setview in scripts doesn't work
• 1.1.3 Get "Event not found." error when running the cleartool find command. (Frederick Sena )
• 1.1.4 When I try to unmount a vob, I get a "Device busy" error and the vob does not unmount. (Frederick Sena )
• 1.1.5 In which order should I upgrade my servers and clients?
• 1.1.6 When shutting down Clearcase, I get "device busy"...
• 1.1.7 How can I support more users with my limited set of licenses?

• 1.2 Elements
• 1.2.1 How to udsndo a mkelem if rmelem is disabled?
• 1.2.2 How to undo an rmname?
• 1.2.3 I do a findmerge or a checkout and see: "Not a VOB object", but I know that the file is a VOB object.
• 1.2.4 How can I locate Hard Links?
• 1.2.5 RCS Keyword expansion?
• 1.2.6 How to perform mass checkouts?
• 1.2.7 How to perform mass checkins?
• 1.2.8 what is an evil twin?
• 1.2.9 How can I see who changed what parts of a file and when?
• 1.2.10 Uncheckout leaves a zero version on branch; is this bad?
• 1.2.11 I can see a file on one branch, but I can't see it on another branch for the same directory. How can I get the file to appear on the other branch? (Frederick Sena )
• 1.2.12 When I do cleartool ls, it says "[eclipsed]". What does "eclipsed" mean? (Frederick Sena )
• 1.2.13 How to check in a file that hasn't change (or is empty) (Bygland, Brian )
• 1.2.14 How to see a file that your view / config spec can't see (Bygland, Brian )
• 1.2.15 What's the difference between %u and %[owner]p ?

• 1.3 Queries
• 1.3.1 How to see what changed between two labels?
• 1.3.1a How to see what changed between two timestamps?
• 1.3.2 how to determine the vob of an element?
• 1.3.3 findmerge takes forever on a single element
• 1.3.4 findmerge takes forever over a vob

• 1.4 Views & Config Specs
• 1.4.1 Why do people put /main/0 at the end of a config spec?
• 1.4.2 I see checkouts to a view that no longer exists; how do I get rid of them?
• 1.4.3 How do I rename a view?
• 1.4.4 How can I keep people from changing their config specs? (Evelyn Leeper )
• 1.4.5 How can I keep people from creating views? (Evelyn Leeper )
• 1.4.6 The message says: see view_log on server server-name. Where are the logfiles stored? (Frederick Sena )
• 1.4.7 How to I cleanup view private files from my view? (Frederick Sena )
• 1.4.8 How do I recover stranded view private files?
• 1.4.9 How to I remove a view owned by some else, e.g: someone who left the company? (Frederick Sena )
• 1.4.10 Why do I get "Checked-out version is not selected by view." when I try to check out a file? (Frederick Sena )
• 1.4.11 Why do I get "permission denied" when I try to checkout a file in someone else's view? (Frederick Sena )
• 1.4.12 How to list all of the files in my view that have never been checked-in to the VOB (Bygland, Brian )
• 1.4.13 Why deal with the "linked storage area"?

• 1.5 Vobs
• 1.5.1 what is the recommended vob size?
• 1.5.2 How (and why) do I split vobs?
• 1.5.3 Why do I have to lock vobs prior to backing them up?
• 1.5.4 Why deal with storage pools?
• 1.5.5 I see a hyperlink described as "? -> ?". How do I get rid of it?
• 1.5.6 How do I rename a vob?
• 1.5.7 What are adminvobs? (Sakib Bhola )
• 1.5.8 What is in lost+found? ()
• 1.5.9 The VOB is Empty! Where did it go? How to Mount a VOB

• 1.6 Clearmake, DO's and Winkins
• 1.6.1 How to list all of the Derived Objects stored within a ClearCase VOB in the current view? Bygland, Brian
• 1.6.2 How to remove derived objects? Bygland, Brian

• 1.7 Process, Policies etc
• 1.7.1 Commonly used triggers?
• 1.7.2 How can I visualize the branching policy used at a site?
• 1.7.3 Commonly used branching policies