Stumbled over this at work yesterday: I have a small VOB and created a snapshot view to access the data (source files) in it. If I give the ConfigSpec as:
load /vob/extern
element * CHECKEDOUT
element * /main/LATEST
, I will see all elements in their "LATEST" version and running a cleartool describe or xlsvtree on a single element can confirm this. Fine.
There is a src folder at the top level, having the versions "0-2", and when I setup the ConfigSpec as
load /vob/extern
element * CHECKEDOUT
element src /main/1
element * /main/LATEST
I can select the "1" version of the src directory, while keeping all other elements at "LATEST". Super.
However, this doesn't seem to work with the root folder (versions "0-7"). When I edit the ConfigSpec to
load /vob/extern
element * CHECKEDOUT
element . /main/6
element * /main/LATEST
, the version "6" of "." doesn't get selected (it's at "7"=LATEST again)! How can I accomplish this in a snapshot view?
I have also made the following, admittedly desperate, attempts
element "." /main/6
and
element "\." /main/6
, but to no avail. Searched the web/stackoverflow for quite a while and the man pages for "version_selector", "config_spec" and "wildcards_ccase" didn't offer me any explanation for the current behaviour.
I also tried another
rm -rf *
cleartool update
after setting the ConfigSpec, but the version of "." stays at "7".
The relative path '.' does not seem to work, and the config spec falls back to the next valid rule.
Try and use, after reading config_spec Pattern, an absolute path:
element /vob/extern /main/6
# or
element /vob/extern/ /main/6