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Eric Jodet
JAZZ DEVELOPER (6.3k●5●111●120) edited
Jun 08 '12, 9:16 p.m.
Using RTC 3.0.1.3 with CC Synchronizer.
Found that upon import, some files were not imported from CC.
No error found in the build logs, but my files were not imported.
Is it a bug?

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Eric Jodet
JAZZ DEVELOPER (6.3k●5●111●120) Jun 08 '12, 8:25 a.m.
After investigation, it turned out that the problematic files were hard-linked.
However - hard-links are not supported by the CC Synchronizer as not supported by the jazz SCM.
This restriction is documented here:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v3r0m1/topic/com.ibm.team.connector.scm.cc.doc/topics/t_import_paths.html

Note that this behavior will be improved in RTC 4.0 with the display of a warning message.

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Jun 08 '12, 9:44 p.m.

Since hard links are not supported by RTC-SCM, there is no way to store them in RTC-SCM. There is performance overhead for the Synchronizer to detect whether a file is hard-linked to another sync'ed file, but in 4.0, we figured out a way to minimize that overhead, and added that warning.

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