cptype

Product	Command type
ClearCase®	cleartool subcommand

Platform
UNIX®
Linux®
Windows®

Description

The cptype command creates a new type object (for example, a label type or attribute type) that is a copy of an existing type object. The existing and new objects can be in the same VOB or in different VOBs. The copy can have the same name as the original only if you are making the copy in a different VOB.

The original and copy do not retain any connection after you execute cptype. They are merely two objects with the same properties, and perhaps even the same name.

Exception: Global types are handled differently. For more information, see the IBM Rational ClearCase Administrator's Guide.

ClearCase—Ordinary types and AdminVOB hierarchies

When you copy an ordinary type object to a VOB that is part of an AdminVOB hierarchy, ClearCase determines whether the new type name is already defined as a global type in the administrative VOB of the copy's destination VOB. If it is, cptype fails with an explanatory message; you can then do one of the following:

Specify a different name for the copy.
Try using the original type object in the VOB where you wanted to make the copy.

Handling of supertypes

The cptype command recursively copies the supertypes of the original type to the copy's destination VOB.

Firing of mktype triggers

When you copy a type, the cptype command fires any mktype triggers attached to the destination VOB.

Restrictions

Identities

This command has the same restrictions as the type-object creation commands (mkobjecttype).

Locks

An error occurs if one or more of these objects are locked: VOB that contains the new object. With –replace, an error occurs if the type object being replaced is locked.

Mastership

(Replicated VOBs) The replica containing the original type must master that type.

Options and arguments

Event records and comments

Default: Creates one or more event records, preserving the comment associated with the original type. Any new comment you specify is appended to the preserved comment. (The file .clearcase_profile defines default commenting behavior; you can also edit comments using chevent.)
–c/omment comment | –cfi/le comment-file-pname |–cq/uery | –cqe/ach | –nc/omment: Overrides the default with the option you specify. See the comments reference page.

Replacing an existing type object

Default: An error occurs if new-type-selector already exists.
–rep/lace: Replaces the definition of new-type-selector with the definition of existing-type-selector. An error occurs if existing-type-selector and new-type-selector have the same definition. If you specify –c or –cfile with –replace, the comment is displayed in the event record for the modification (displayed with lshistory –minor); it does not replace the object's creation comment (displayed with describe). Use chevent to change a creation comment.

Specifying the existing and new type objects

Default

None.

existing-type-selector , new-type-selector

The name of an existing type object and a name for the new copy. Specify existing-type-selector in the form type-kind:type-name[@vob-selector] and new-type-selector in the form [type-kind]:type-name[@vob-selector]

`type-kind`	One of
attype	Attribute type
brtype	Branch type
eltype	Element type
hltype	Hyperlink type
lbtype	Label type
trtype	Trigger type
`type-name`	Name of the type object See the cleartool reference page for rules about composing names.
`vob-selector`	VOB specifier Specify `vob-selector` in the form [vob:]`pname-in-vob`
`vob-selector`	`pname-in-vob`	Path name of the VOB tag (whether or not the VOB is mounted) or of any file system object within the VOB (if the VOB is mounted)

Examples

The UNIX system and Linux examples in this section are written for use in csh. If you use another shell, you may need to use different quoting and escaping conventions.

The Windows examples that include wildcards or quoting are written for use in cleartool interactive mode. If you use cleartool single-command mode, you may need to change the wildcards and quoting to make your command interpreter process the command appropriately.

In cleartool single-command mode, cmd-context represents the UNIX system and Linux shells or Windows command interpreter prompt, followed by the cleartool command. In cleartool interactive mode, cmd-context represents the interactive cleartool prompt.

Make a copy of a label type object, in the same VOB.
cmd-context cptype lbtype:RE1.3 REL1.4
Copy a branch type object, to create an object with the same name in a different VOB.
cmd-context cptype -c "copied from source VOB" ^ brtype:proj_test3.7@\projsrc proj_test3.7@\projtest
Replace the definition of the trigger type label_it with the description of label_it from another VOB.
cmd-context cptype –replace trtype:label_it@/vobs/stage label_it@/vobs/dev