how to get file revision from scm command line

How to get the latest revision number for any file present in the RTC SCM using the command line utilities under scmtools.

Jazz is change set based. It uses baselines and snapshots to identify specific revisions.

Few questions related to above output -
Are 1031, 1032 file revision numbers?

No. They are aliases. See https://jazz.net/help-dev/rational-team-concert/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.scm.doc/topics/c_scm_cli.html (specifically "UUIDs and aliases")

e

Also note that in a system that supports branching, "latest" is only
semantically meaningful against some evolving context, which in RTC
would be either a workspace or a stream.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 8/18/2010 2:37 PM, echughes wrote:

neerajkarandikarwrote:
How to get the latest revision number for any file present in the RTC
SCM using the command line utilities under scmtools.

Jazz is change set based. It uses baselines and snapshots to identify
specific revisions.

neerajkarandikarwrote:
Few questions related to above output -
Are 1031, 1032 file revision numbers?

No. They are aliases. See
https://jazz.net/help-dev/rational-team-concert/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.scm.doc/topics/c_scm_cli.html
(specifically "UUIDs and aliases")

e

Also note that in a system that supports branching, "latest" is only
semantically meaningful against some evolving context, which in RTC
would be either a workspace or a stream.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 8/18/2010 2:37 PM, echughes wrote:

neerajkarandikarwrote:
How to get the latest revision number for any file present in the RTC
SCM using the command line utilities under scmtools.

Jazz is change set based. It uses baselines and snapshots to identify
specific revisions.

neerajkarandikarwrote:
Few questions related to above output -
Are 1031, 1032 file revision numbers?

No. They are aliases. See
https://jazz.net/help-dev/rational-team-concert/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.scm.doc/topics/c_scm_cli.html
(specifically "UUIDs and aliases")

e

Thanks Geoff and cchughes. Is there a command to get the current baseline number of a file in repository?

A particular file state can be contained in an arbitrary number of
baselines. Are you interested in just one of them, or the list of all
of them?

Probably you should indicate what you want to do with that information,
so we can give you more specific guidance.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 8/19/2010 5:07 PM, neerajkarandikar wrote:

gmclemmwrote:
Also note that in a system that supports branching,
"latest" is only
semantically meaningful against some evolving context, which in RTC

would be either a workspace or a stream.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 8/18/2010 2:37 PM, echughes wrote:
neerajkarandikarwrote:
How to get the latest revision number for any file present in the
RTC
SCM using the command line utilities under scmtools.

Jazz is change set based. It uses baselines and snapshots to
identify
specific revisions.

neerajkarandikarwrote:
Few questions related to above output -
Are 1031, 1032 file revision numbers?

No. They are aliases. See

https://jazz.net/help-dev/rational-team-concert/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.scm.doc/topics/c_scm_cli.html
(specifically "UUIDs and aliases")

e

Thanks Geoff and cchughes. Is there a command to get the current
baseline number of a file in repository?

Is there a command to get the current baseline number of a file in repository?

I believe that 'scm lastmod' will do what you're asking for.

e

We have shifted from SVN to RTC.

Previously along with each build we used to publish revision details for selected files in the project(E.g. Jars) using SVN INFO command.
This information can be refered to at a later date to know the file version in a given build and then use it to retrieve that specific revision from SVN if required.

We want to achieve similar logging in RTC.

The 'scm lostMod' may not be useful, if SCM does not allow fetching previous versions of a file using that information.

Thanks,
Neeraj

A particular file state can be contained in an arbitrary number of
baselines. Are you interested in just one of them, or the list of all
of them?

Probably you should indicate what you want to do with that information,
so we can give you more specific guidance.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 8/19/2010 5:07 PM, neerajkarandikar wrote:

gmclemmwrote:
Also note that in a system that supports branching,
"latest" is only
semantically meaningful against some evolving context, which in RTC

would be either a workspace or a stream.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 8/18/2010 2:37 PM, echughes wrote:
neerajkarandikarwrote:
How to get the latest revision number for any file present in the
RTC
SCM using the command line utilities under scmtools.

Jazz is change set based. It uses baselines and snapshots to
identify
specific revisions.

neerajkarandikarwrote:
Few questions related to above output -
Are 1031, 1032 file revision numbers?

No. They are aliases. See

https://jazz.net/help-dev/rational-team-concert/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.team.scm.doc/topics/c_scm_cli.html
(specifically "UUIDs and aliases")

e

Thanks Geoff and cchughes. Is there a command to get the current
baseline number of a file in repository?

neerajkarandikar wrote:

We have shifted from SVN to RTC.

Previously along with each build we used to publish revision details
for selected files in the project(E.g. Jars) using SVN INFO command.

This information can be refered to at a later date to know the file
version in a given build and then use it to retrieve that specific
revision from SVN if required.

We want to achieve similar logging in RTC.

You just need to record the snapshot associated with that build. That
is recorded in the build result, so there isn't really a need to record
that separately. At some later date, you can create a new repository
workspace from the snapshot, and you will have the exact same source
that was used in that build. If you are only interested in certain
files, then you can load only those files.

neerajkarandikar wrote:

We have shifted from SVN to RTC.

Previously along with each build we used to publish revision details
for selected files in the project(E.g. Jars) using SVN INFO command.

This information can be refered to at a later date to know the file
version in a given build and then use it to retrieve that specific
revision from SVN if required.

We want to achieve similar logging in RTC.

You just need to record the snapshot associated with that build. That
is recorded in the build result, so there isn't really a need to record
that separately. At some later date, you can create a new repository
workspace from the snapshot, and you will have the exact same source
that was used in that build. If you are only interested in certain
files, then you can load only those files.

Thanks David, Snapshot should solve our problem.