6.1 Preparing Your Development View

Before you start a rebase operation, check in all files and directories in your development view. You cannot start a rebase operation from a view that contains checkouts.

To Prepare Your Development View

1. From your development view, enter cleartool lscheckout with these options:

cleartool lscheckout -cview -me -avobs

lscheckout produces a list of file or directory versions checked out to your development view and indicates which activity each checked-out version belongs to.

For more information, see the lscheckout reference page in the Command Reference.

2. To see which changes are in a checked-out version:

• To see the differences between the previously checked-in version and the current version, type this command:

cleartool diff -predecessor filename

• To see checkin comments, type this command:

cleartool lshistory filename

3. Do one of the following:

• To write to the VOB the changes for a given file, check it in. Type this command:

cleartool checkin filename

• To undo your changes for a file, cancel its checkout. Type this command:

cleartool unco filename

During the cancel checkout operation, you can choose to save your changes in a view-private file.