I would like to update a file under ClearCase source control. This needs to happen from an Ant script.
I have created a snapshot view for this purpose. ccupdate updates it just fine.
I have tried using cccheckout but it fails with the following error cleartool: Error: To operate on UCM branch, must be set to an activity and a UCM view..
Is there a way to check-out a file in a snapshot view, replace it and check-in the new version? If this involves creating/switching to an activity, please include this in your answer.
The Apache Ant ClearCase Tasks (2003!) are pre-UCM area.
That means they have no notion of "UCM view" (snapshot or dynamic) or activities.
If you are staying with ant, you could try (not tested) a tasks library like clearantlib, which allows you to execute any cleartool command (with ccexec)
That way you can use a cleartool setact in order to set a UCM activity in the UCM view.
Your checkout will proceed only when an activity is set.