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cleacase, cleartool, print branch comment

I need to print the comment (I'm on unix) used when creating a branch and all I found so far is:

cleartool describe -fmt '%c' brtype:<branch_name>

this is working, but only when I am in some mounted view (pwd)

There is a possibility to print this comment from anywhere, since the view can be NOT active (un-mounted)?

Solution

  • Mounted or unmounted means dynamic view.
    But a branch isn't related to a view, it is related to its vob in which it is defined.

    That means you actually can execute that command from anywhere, if you are using the fully qualified named of that branch:

    cleartool describe -fmt '%c' brtype:<branch_name>@\vob

    (with @\vob the vob in which you have defined the brtype -- branch type -- of the branch.
    In UCM, it would be the pvob)