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Equivalents to Clearcase Symbolic Links in RTC SCM

Is anyone aware of a way I can create equivalents to symbolic links within RTC SCM?

Currently in ver 2 and 3 symbolic links can be imported from Clearcase but the ability for them to be resolved within RTC SCM into a workspace will not be available until RTC ver4. Therefore I am looking for a way to create / mimic symbolic links within a component in RTC ver 2.0.0.2

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To clarify:
RTC currently supports symbolic links on the unix platform.
RTC is scheduled in the next release (4.0) to support symbolic links on
Windows file systems that support symbolic links.
There is a work item for RTC to simulate symbolic links the way
ClearCase does (work item 115144), but that is not in-plan for a release.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 11/22/2011 6:08 AM, davidbeange wrote:
Is anyone aware of a way I can create equivalents to symbolic links
within RTC SCM?

Currently in ver 2 and 3 symbolic links can be imported from Clearcase
but the ability for them to be resolved within RTC SCM into a
workspace will not be available until RTC ver4. Therefore I am
looking for a way to create / mimic symbolic links within a component
in RTC ver 2.0.0.2

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If I have symbolic links stored in the repository that were generated on Windows 7, is there a way to load that workspace on Linux/Unix and have the symbolic links created successfully on the Linux/Unix platform?  Just curious if the handling of the symbolic links is restricted to the same platform, or if it gets translated making the symbolic link usable on any system that supports symbolic links, not just the original system where the link was captured.

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