If you use IBM® Rational® ClearCase® Remote
Client for
source-control operations, you must check out an element that has
been added or checked in to the database to modify it.
About this task
You can check out an entire functional test project or
one or more files at a time.
If you work on an element without
checking it out from the ClearCase view, this version of the file
is "hijacked". The hijacked file is displayed under Details
of <scriptname> with
the warning symbol (
) next
to it. You can convert the hijacked files to check them out and work
on the file when you check out an element.
Procedure
- From the Projects view, right-click one
or more elements.
- From the menu, click .
- In the Artifact column, clear the
check box of any element you do not want to check out.
If
you see the not-ready symbol (
) in the State column, you cannot
check out an element. When you select the element, you see an explanation
of the problem.
- If an element is hijacked, take one of these steps:
- Click Convert hijacked files to checkout to
check out the hijacked version of this file and continue working on
the hijacked version. When you check in this file, you replace the
version in the VOB with the hijacked version.
- Click Keep the hijack content to check
out the version of this file from the versioned object base (VOB)
and stop work on the hijacked version. When you check in this file, Rational ClearCase Remote Client checks
in the version from the VOB and creates a copy of the hijacked version
with a _keep extension, in case you need the changes later.
- Select Reserved Checkout for a
reserved checkout. If another user has already checked out the element
as reserved, you cannot check out the element.
Select Unreserved
Checkout to check out the element as unreserved. A reserved
checkout gives you the exclusive right to check in the element when
you are finished. With an unreserved checkout, you might be required
to merge your changes at checkin, if someone else checked in the same
element before you. For more information, see Unreserved elements.
Select Prefer
Reserved, Unreserved if Necessary to check out the element
as reserved if possible. If no other user has checked out the element
as reserved, it is checked out as reserved. If any other user has
already checked out the element as reserved, it is checked out as
unreserved.
- Click Finish.
You
will see a small green check mark as a subscript to the element icon
in the Functional Test Projects view, indicating that it has been
checked out.
