Use the Editors/Workspace preferences page to specify how the Rational
ClearCase Remote Client for Eclipse interacts with Eclipse workspaces and
embedded editors.
Before you begin
This dialog box is available only if you are using the Rational ClearCase
Remote Client for Eclipse.
- From the main menu bar, select to open the Preferences dialog
box.
- Select .
- Specify how you want the Rational ClearCase
Remote Client for Eclipse to behave when checked-in files are edited (opened)
or saved by an Eclipse editor. Different preferences can be specified
for interactive editors (which support prompting), non-interactive editors
(which do not support prompting), and internal editors.
- Select Automatically checkout if you want the
Rational ClearCase Remote Client for Eclipse to check out the file automatically.
- Select Prompt to checkout if you want the Rational
ClearCase Remote Client for Eclipse to prompt you to check out each affected
file. (This choice is available for interactive editors only.)
- Select Do nothing to disable this feature.
- If you selected Automatically checkout or Prompt
to checkout for any of the editors in the previous step, you must
select one of three Hijack Options for Checkout:
- Select Do not hijack to prevent the Rational
ClearCase Remote Client for Eclipse from hijacking the file when a checkout
is not possible.
- Select Hijack only if disconnected to allow
hijacking only when you are disconnected from the ClearCase Web server.
- Select Always Hijack to force a hijack even
when a checkout is possible.
- Specify how you would like the ClearCase Remote Client to behave When
new resources are added to the Eclipse workspace.
Note: Resources
with names that match patterns you have configured Eclipse to ignore are not
considered during this operation.
- Select Prompt to add to source control if you
want the ClearCase Remote Client to prompt you to add each new resource to
source control.
- Select Automatically add to source control if
you want the ClearCase Remote Client to add each new resource to source control
automatically.
- Select Do nothing to disable this feature.
- Specify how you want the ClearCase Remote Client for Eclipse to
behave when you initiate a ClearCase operation that could modify a file that
has been edited in a Eclipse editor but has not yet been saved. (Eclipse
editors in which files have been modified but not saved are referred to as
"dirty.")
- Select Prompt to save dirty ClearCase editors if
you want to be prompted to save each editor in which a file under ClearCase
control has been modified.
- Select Automatically save dirty ClearCase editors to
force Eclipse to save all editors in which files under ClearCase control have
been modified.
- Select Do nothing to disable this feature.
- Select Decorate workspace project names with viewtags to
have the ClearCase Remote Client for Eclipse include the view tag of the ClearCase
view that contains a project in the project's label decoration.
- Save your preferences.
- To restore all Editors/Workspace preferences
to their default settings, click Restore Defaults
- Click Apply to set the specified preferences
and leave the dialog box open.
- Click OK to set the specified preferences and
close the dialog box.
- To nullify any changes to the Editors/Workspace preferences
you have made during the current session and close the dialog box, click Cancel.