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[closed] RTC 4.0.4 - Create patch to deliver subset of changes in Visual Studio


Simon Eickel (1.1k75457) | asked Oct 11 '13, 5:29 a.m.
closed Oct 18 '13, 7:05 a.m.
Use case:
user works on some parts and checks those changes in.
After this he completes the change set and makes it ready to deliver.

From any circumstances (maybe the boss wants him just to deliver a subset of the features he created) he modifies those changes again to a version with less features and again checks those changes in and completes them.

Now he only needs to deliver the second completed change set. The first want should not get up within the stream.

In Eclipse I'm able to easily create a patch from the pending changes view and to deliver this patch to the stream.
The patch can than be accepted in other workspaces.
But I did not find any possibility to do this using Visual Studio clients.
When I try to just deliver the change set I get this error message - wich is correct and saves from corrupting the stream:


But now the question is how to create the patch.

In Eclipse I can use the Pending Changes View:


I already found this forum post:
RTC 4.0 - Create patch to resolve gap from Visual Studio client and Windows shell client
But this only covers the part how to load change sets which are creating gaps to my workspace.

So ... what I could do as a workaround:
Create a second Repository Workspace flowing with the first one.
Accepting this change set and creating automatical patch for loading.

After this is done change the flow target to the stream and deliver this patch to the stream ... but this is really tricky...

Is there a better way? Any ideas?

Greetings,
Simon

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Lakshmi Narasimhan T V commented Oct 11 '13, 6:21 a.m. | edited Oct 11 '13, 6:26 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER

If the change set is attached to a work item, you can open the work item editor for the work item and accept the change set from the Links tab.


Simon Eickel commented Oct 11 '13, 8:18 a.m.

yes, that's right.
In this case we do not have a work item link.
The next is this is again just for getting this change set into my workspace but not into the stream.
But the question is how to deliver this completed change set to the stream ... this would be easy using a patch functionality ;)

The question has been closed for the following reason: "The question is answered, right answer was accepted" by eickel Oct 18 '13, 7:05 a.m.

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Sreerupa Sen (1.0k4) | answered Oct 18 '13, 6:59 a.m.
FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
 We left out creating a patch from the Visual Studio Client by design - patch means something quite different in the Microsoft world, and we thought it might confuse the users.
Flowing the changes to an intermediate repository workspace created from the target stream and then manually diffing and merging is the only way I can think of with our current .NET offerings.
What Dejan says is exactly right, from 4.0.5 RTC has a better way of working with gaps.
Cheers
--Rupa
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Simon Eickel commented Oct 18 '13, 7:02 a.m.

thanks for this statement Sreerupa.
It would be possible to implement such a way by naming it differnetly as "patch" :D


Sreerupa Sen commented Oct 18 '13, 7:06 a.m.
FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER

Yeah that's sort of what we've done now, that and making it way easier to merge and work with gaps! It'd be great if you could try it out and let us know.

Cheers
--Rupa

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Dejan Custic (2855) | answered Oct 16 '13, 12:10 p.m.
FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
As a related note, in 4.0.5 there is a merge gap editor that allows you to merge gaps and preserve history. The wiki link includes VS client screen captures and links to demo videos https://jazz.net/help-dev/clm/topic/com.ibm.team.scm.doc/topics/c_merging_changes_gaps.html. The Help will be available in the final 4.0.5 release.