Some redundant codes in a VOB in Clearcase

Question

There is a folder A, and there are few files inside A:

f1 
f2 
f3 ..... 

Now there is another folder inside A by name x.
Inside x also we have some files with the same name as

f1 
f2 
f3 
f4 .... 

• The files inside A has 4 versions
• and f1 f2 f3 f3 in x also has 7 versions each

We found that these f1 in both A and X are the same files.

So now we need to move all 7 versions f1 f2 f3 under x to A and added it as 5th version under A folder.

Do we need to raise a SR with IBM to understand whether it is possible or not?
If it is possible, how can we do that?

Answer 1

What you can do is a clearfsimport of x folder into A: that will automatically update A files version, adding a 5th version to fn in A with the content of fn in x.

Note that it will ignore the first 6th version of fn in x: it will take only the current content of fn from x, automatically checkout fn in A, create a new version and check in fn in A.

clearfsimport -preview -rec -nset /path/to/x /path/to/yourView/path/to/A

Caveat: That would be done with a full ClearCase installation, not a CCRC one (7.x), as CCRC as no clearfsimport capability.

If you don't have too many files and only access to CCRC, you can do it manually through a CCRC web view: checkout all common files, copy files from X to A, checkin all common files.

But if you do have many files, you need to ask your ClearCase admin: the CCRC server is based on a full ClearCase installation, and does have the clearfsimport utility available.