TY - BOOK AU - Girod,Marc AU - Schpichko,Tatiana TI - IBM Rational ClearCase 7.0: master the tools that monitor, analyze, and manage software configurations : take a deep dive into extending ClearCase 7.0 to ensure the consistency and reproducibility of your software configurations SN - 9781849680134 AV - QA76.76.C69 G57 2011eb U1 - 005.1005.13/3 PY - 2011/// CY - Birmingham, U.K. PB - Packt Enterprise KW - Rational Clearcase KW - fast KW - Software configuration management KW - Logiciels KW - Gestion de configurations KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Teaser; But first the scenario; Time to review the exhibited functionality?; Chapter 1: Using the command line; Rationale (pun intended); Against intuition; The continuity of reasoning; Illustrations; Text, shell, and terminal; Perl; Perl documentation; Windows command prompt and alternatives; GUI versus text mode; ClearCase documentation; Summary; Chapter 2: Presentation of ClearCase; SCM history; ClearCase originality; Virtual file system; Auditing, winkin; The main conceptsVobs and views; Deeper into views; Versioning mechanism; Views properties; Registry, License, and even Shipping servers; Config specs; Summary; Chapter 3: Build Auditing and Avoidance; Configuration records; Flat or hierarchical: clearaudit vs. clearmake; Makefile syntaxes-compatibility modes; A first case with clearmake; Recording the makefiles; Using remote subsystems; Remote dependencies; Multiple evaluation of dependencies; Validation; Error reports and their analysis; State of derived objects and reference count; Removing derived objects; Dependencies on the environment and on toolsReproducing the build; Litmus test; Tying some knots; Ties between vobs and views; Distributed or parallel builds; Staging; Application to other tasks than mere builds; Summary; Chapter 4: Version Control; Making elements; Checkout and checkin; Versioned directories; lost+found; Removing files; Looking at the view extended side of things; Version tree; Recovering files; Hard links; Evil twins; Eclipsed files; Writable copies; Differences and annotations; Misguided critiques; Summary; Chapter 5: MultiSite Concerns; Distribution model; Multitool, and MultiSite LicensesReplicas and mastership; Avoid depending on mastership; Branches; Labels; Other types; Global types and admin vobs; Shortcomings of MultiSite; Summary; Chapter 6: Primary Metadata; Metadata in the version extended view; Types and instances; Labels or branches?; Parallel development; Config specs; Floating and fixed labels; Baselines and incremental labels; Branches and branch types; Delivery; Archiving; Rollback; Use of locking; Types as handles for information; Summary-wrapping up of recommended conventions; Chapter 7: Merging; Patching and merging; Patching text filesManaging contributions; Merging directories; Rebase or home merge; Complex branching patterns; Rollback of in-place delivery; Bulk merges; Evil twins; Summary-wrapping up; Chapter 8: Tools Maintenance; Why?; Dependency control; Safety with updates; Explicitly declare tools as dependencies?; ClearCase has better to offer!; Referential transparency; Flexibility; Tool fixes; Indirect dependencies; MultiSite replication; How?; Example-perl installation under a ClearCase vob, with multi-platform support; Importing CPAN modules; Installing the Perl distribution N2 - Take a deep dive into extending IBM Rational ClearCase 7.0 to ensure the consistency and reproducibility of your software configurations with this book and eBook UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=365686 ER -