update

Product	Command type
ClearCase®	cleartool subcommand
ClearCase Remote Client	rcleartool subcommand

Platform
UNIX®
Linux®
Windows®
Web

Description

Updating Loaded Elements

For one or more loaded elements, the update command does the following:

Reevaluates the config spec to select versions of loaded elements in the VOB and loads them if they differ from the currently loaded versions
Unloads the file or directory from the view if a loaded element is no longer visible (that is, a new directory version does not have an entry for the element). To unload a directory element, update does the following:
- Recursively deletes all loaded elements.
- Renames the directory to directory-name.unloaded if necessary, thus preserving all view-private files and view-private directories.
Copies the version selected by the config spec into the snapshot view, if the version in the view is different from the version in the VOB selected by the config spec. The version in the view can be different if, for example, the selected version in the VOB is newer, or if a label is attached to the selected version in the VOB, but not to the version in the view.

update does not apply to files or directories that are checked out to the current view.

If update cannot access a VOB (perhaps because of problems in the network), any elements from that VOB remain loaded, but are put in a special state (rule unavailable).

The update command accounts for the fact that VOB elements specified by your config spec may change while an update is in progress. To avoid loading an inconsistent set of element versions, update ignores versions that meet both of the following criteria:

The version is selected by a config spec rule that specifies the LATEST version label.
The version was checked in after the moment the update operation began.

update also accounts for the fact that the system clocks on different hosts may not be synchronized.

When issued from a snapshot view, the following cleartool commands invoke update at the completion of the command:

edcs
findmerge (only when used to merge versions of a directory)
ln
merge (only when used to merge versions of a directory)
mkdir
mkelem
mv
rmname
setcs
uncheckout

Loading new elements

The form of the update command that specifies the –add_loadrules option enables you to add new load rules to your config_spec and load the elements that those rules specify.

Restrictions

Multi-hop symbolic links are not supported in snapshot views. When loading an element that is a VOB symbolic link, update behaves differently on different platform types.

On Windows, the symbolic link and its target are both loaded as copies.
On the UNIX system and Linux, the symbolic link is loaded as a file system symbolic link to the target, which is loaded as a copy.

In cases where the target of a symbolic link is itself a symbolic link, update does not attempt to resolve the target of that link.

Options and arguments

Using the graphical update tool

Default: The update is performed in the command window.
–g/raphical: Invokes the graphical update tool.

Using the preview mode

Default: None.
–print: Produces a preview of the update operation: instead of copying or removing files, update prints a report to standard output of the actions it would take for each specified element.

Confirmation step

Default: update prompts for confirmation of the elements to be updated. However, update does not in all circumstances prompt you to confirm all the elements to be updated. Sometimes there are no confirmation prompts when you update elements, even though you have not specified –force.
–f/orce: Suppresses the confirmation prompts.

Handling hijacked files

Default: –noverwrite
–ove/rwrite: Overwrites all hijacked files with the version selected by the config spec.
–nov/erwrite: Leaves all hijacked files in the view with their current modifications.
–ren/ame/: Renames hijacked files to filename.keep and copies the version in the VOB selected by the config spec into the view.

Determining the modification time stamp

Default: The initial default is set by the mkview command. Thereafter, the most recently used time scheme is retained as part of the view's state and is used as the default behavior for the next update.
–cti/me: Sets the time stamp of a file element to the current time, that is, the time at which the version is copied into the view. –ctime has no effect on directories (directories always use the current time).
–pti/me: Sets the time stamp of a file element to the time at which the version was checked in to the VOB. –ptime has no effect on directories. (Directories always use the current time.)

Specifying a file transfer log

Default: A log file named update.timestamp.updt that is written to the root of the snapshot view directory.
–log pname: Specifies a log file for the operation. The log file lists the actions taken by the update command, as well as an indication of any errors that occur during the operation.
To suppress generation of the log file, use –log /dev/null (UNIX and Linux) or -log NUL (Windows). You can also set the CCASE_NO_LOG EV, which suppresses generation of the log file for any command that initiates the update operation.

Specifying new load rules

Default: None.
–add_loadrules: Specifies that the pname argument is a new load rule. The new rule is appended to the view's config spec, and the elements it specifies are loaded.

Specifying the elements to be updated or added

Default: If you do not specify –add_loadrules, the current snapshot view; if you specify –add_loadrules, none.
pname ...: If you do not specify –add_loadrules, this argument specifies the files and directories to update. All specified directories, including the root directory of the snapshot view, are updated recursively.
If you specify –add_loadrules, this argument is interpreted as a new load rule. The elements specified by the rule are loaded and the rule is appended to the config spec of the current view. pname must be either a pathname relative to your current location in the directory structure of the snapshot view or an absolute path that includes the snapshot view path.

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.

On a Windows system, preview an update of the view xml_snapshot and produce a log file log.txt in the C:\temp directory.
cmd-context update –print –log C:\temp\log.txt E:\views\xml_snapshot
Update the file ./foo.c using the current time as the time stamp.
cmd-context update –ctime foo.c
Update the current directory; if there are any hijacked files, rename them filename.keep and copy the VOB versions specified by the config spec into the view.
cmd-context update –rename
Load into the current view the new elements in .\doc\user_manual, adding the rule load \doc\user_manual to the view's config spec.
cmd-context update –add_loadrules .\doc\user_manual