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ClearCase Commands
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By: Dave Goodall
IBM Rational ClearCase is a powerful, elegant version control system.
Since it's heritage is Unix, the manual is ... obscure. These battle tested commands should get you up and running...
Before you dive in take note!
 | 'cl' is the accepted shortform for 'ClearCase' / 'Cleartool' when entering package commands. |
 | A period in a sample command line is not punctuation, it's meant to be typed! |
Bon appetit.
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Basics
 | 01 To Get Help |
 | 02 To enter cleartool. |
 | 03 To exit cleartool. |
 | 04 To navigate inside cleartool. |
 | 05 To enter graphics mode (slow but gorgeous). |
File Checkouts and Checkins
 | 06 To Check out a file. |
 | 07 To cancel a checkout. |
 | 08 To check out a previous version of a file. |
 | 09 To find what you have checked out. |
 | 10 To find out what other files are checked out. |
 | 11 To Check in a file. |
 | 12 To checkin or checkout multiple files. |
Labels
 | 13 To list existing labels. |
 | 14 To observe the naming conventions for branches and labels. |
 | 15 To Make a label. |
 | 16 To label a version of a file. |
 | 17 To apply a label to the entire source tree. |
 | 18 To move an existing label down to the latest elements. |
 | 19 To see if a label is on the latest version of a file or on a branch. |
File and Version Information
 | 20 To change the comment for a revision. |
 | 21 To change the content description for a file. |
 | 22 To list the history (versions with comments) of a file. |
 | 23 To find out what files have been worked on since .... |
 | 24 To find out the file_type of a file. |
 | 25 To setup cleartool to send email on a file change. |
Directory Operations
 | 26 To add a new directory to the source tree. |
 | 27 To rename a directory in the /gl/vobs/netman/src tree. |
 | 28 To rename a vob directory or element. |
File Operations : Add Move Rename
 | 29 To Add a new file to an existing directory. |
 | 30 To use symbolic links avoid duplicating an archive file in different directories. |
 | 31 To move an atria file from one directory to another. |
 | 32 To make a view private copy of a file. |
 | 33 To remove 'rm' a Cleartool archive file. |
 | 34 To look at a file that has been Cleartool 'rm'd'. |
Branches
 | 35 To List existing branches. |
 | 36 To Make a branch. |
 | 37 To merge a branch back to the mainline. |
Releases
 | 38 To build a release. |
 | 39 To obtain a directory listing of the source tree for a release. |
 | 40 To obtain a list of file changes since the last release. |
Administrator
 | 41 To remove (destroy) the latest version(s) of a file. |
 | 42 To look at your configspec. |
 | 43 To change your configspec. |
Not full up yet?
Yet More Command Recipes!
IBM® Rational® ClearCase® are trademarks of IBM Corporation.
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