2.7 Accessing Your Development View

After creating your development view, the Join Project Wizard offers to open your development view in a shell or File Browser (xclearcase), a GUI from which you can browse files and directories. To access your development view without the help of the Join Project Wizard or to access someone else's view, see the following sections.

Accessing a Snapshot View

Recall that when you create the view, ClearCase loads one version of each element in the project's baselines into your view. To access the files loaded into a view, change to the root directory of the view.

For example, when creating the view you provide this pathname:

~/pat_v1.4_cropcircle

The view's files are located in the ~/pat_v1.4_cropcircle directory. (See Locations for Snapshot Views for more information.)

Accessing Someone Else's Snapshot View

You can access someone else's snapshot view as you would access any other directory on another workstation. If you can access the other workstation and that the directory's owner has set up the proper permissions, you can use the cd command to access the view.

Accessing a Dynamic View

To access source files from a dynamic view, you must set a view and mount VOBs.

To Set a Dynamic View

From a shell, enter the following command:

cleartool setview view-tag

You determine the view-tag when you create the view. (Figure 13 here shows where to provide the view-tag in the Join Project Wizard.)

For more information on setting a view, see the setview reference page in the Command Reference or enter cleartool man -graphical setview in a shell.

To Mount VOBs

Type this command:

cleartool mount VOB-tag

Usually, ClearCase mounts VOBs that were created with a public VOB-tag when you start or reboot your workstation. If public VOBs do not mount, type cleartool mount -all to mount them.

VOBs remain mounted until you reboot your workstation or unmount them with the cleartool umount command. For more information on mounting VOBs, see the mount reference page in the Command Reference.