RTC2.x ClearCase connector symbolic links supported?
Hi,
I got a customer question. I searched a bit but only got less sure about this.
Does the ClearCase connector to RTC supports Symbolic Links?
Since 2.0.0.2 Jazz SCM supports symbolic links. I was not able to find if this also extends to the CC connector supporting it.
The 2.0.0.2 help indicates it does not
Is this still accurate? What about 3.0?
I got a customer question. I searched a bit but only got less sure about this.
Does the ClearCase connector to RTC supports Symbolic Links?
Since 2.0.0.2 Jazz SCM supports symbolic links. I was not able to find if this also extends to the CC connector supporting it.
The 2.0.0.2 help indicates it does not
Restriction: Unlike Rational ClearCase, Rational Team Concert source control does not support hard links or symbolic links. If multiple hard links to the same file are encountered during an import, only one link target (the final one encountered during the import) remains in the synchronized stream after the import completes. If a symbolic link is encountered, a text file whose name is the name of the symbolic line and whose content identifies the target pathname of the symbolic link is created in the synchronized stream.
Is this still accurate? What about 3.0?
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There are two issues here.
The first is support of symbolic links on Windows.
That is work item 114325.
It is currently marked high priority but is still in backlog, so if you
are interested in getting this supported, you will want to add a comment
indicating your interest/support.
The second is why the fetch stops when encountering the first symbolic
link, rather than continuing fetching the other files. If you are
interested in pursuing that issue, you will want to either work with
Rational support or open a work item directly on jazz.net.
Cheers,
Geoff
On 6/26/2011 2:38 PM, yaron wrote:
The first is support of symbolic links on Windows.
That is work item 114325.
It is currently marked high priority but is still in backlog, so if you
are interested in getting this supported, you will want to add a comment
indicating your interest/support.
The second is why the fetch stops when encountering the first symbolic
link, rather than continuing fetching the other files. If you are
interested in pursuing that issue, you will want to either work with
Rational support or open a work item directly on jazz.net.
Cheers,
Geoff
On 6/26/2011 2:38 PM, yaron wrote:
Hi,
Is there any progress with that issue?
Same problem in RTC3.
My customer is using symbolic links.
Also we are using RTC build system.
The fetch at the windows build system fails and does not continue to
load the rest of the files.
Thanks,
Yaron
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