Emmanuel Venisse wrote:
Are you sure it isn't possible to checkout sources in a specific folder with cleartool?
It is possible with snapshot views. My ClearCase know-how is limited, but I am quite sure it is not possible with dynamic views.
Do you think the suggested enhancement for scm-local would be useful and make sense? Not only in combination with ClearCase dynamic views but for other usage as well, e.g. testing.
Regards,
Arne
> That's true. Maybe we could enhance scm-local to keep its own metadata? In
> particular,
> scm-local could maintain a simple file, say .maven-scm-local, that contains
> as plain text the list of files in the source directory, as seen during the
> last checkout or update operation:
>
> - During checkout, the file .maven-scm-local is created in the checkout base
> directory. Its just a plain text file containing the list of files that have
> been checked out.
> - The update command looks for the file. If it is there, it compares the
> contents of that file to the current source directory contents (including
> subdirs). All files that are in .maven-scm-local but are no longer in the
> source dir, have been deleted in the source dir. The update command
> therefore removes them from the checkout dir.
> - If for whatever reason .maven-scm-local is not there, the update command
> won't delete any files. That way, we're backwards compatible.
> - After completing the update process, the update command rewrites the
> .maven-scm-local metadata file.
> - Even the changelog command can interpret .maven-scm-local
> - For add and checkin commands, I don't think that changes are needed.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards,
> Arne
>
