The relocate command moves elements, including directory trees, from one VOB to another. All related VOB database entries and data containers are moved to the target VOB. relocate preserves the “move from” VOB's namespace by substituting VOB symbolic links for moved elements.
The more common use of relocate involves splitting a piece from one VOB and moving it to a newly created VOB. However, you can move an arbitrary collection of elements from one VOB to a location in any other VOB. You cannot use relocate to move an element to a new location in the same VOB. Use cleartool mv for this purpose.
For a dynamic view, view-private files and nonversioned DOs are not relocated. If a relocated directory contains view-private files, they are stranded; DOs are removed.
Warning: The relocate command makes irreversible changes to at least two VOBs and their event histories. We recommend that you not use it frivolously or routinely for minor adjustments. Furthermore, you are advised to stop VOB update activity before and during a relocate operation.
An error occurs if one or more of these objects are locked in the source VOB: VOB, element. An error occurs if one or more of these objects are locked in the destination VOB: VOB, element, branch type, element type, label type, hyperlink type, attribute type.
(Replicated VOBs only) Your current replica must master any element to be relocated.
The following restrictions apply:
If you reject these defaults, the result is nonfunctional links that you must repair. If a version of an element is visible in the current view and you indicate it is not to be relocated, the result is a bad link in the target VOB. If a version of an element is not visible in the view and you indicate that it is to be relocated, the result is a bad link in the source VOB.
On Windows, this pathname must be drive-relative:
The UNIX 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 shell or Windows command interpreter prompt, followed by the cleartool command. In cleartool interactive mode, cmd-context represents the interactive cleartool prompt.
Note: In the UNIX examples that follow, arguments and output that show multicomponent VOB tags are not applicable to ClearCase LT, which recognizes only single-component VOB tags. In this manual, a multicomponent VOB tag is by convention a two-component VOB tag of the form /vobs/vob-tag-leaf—for example, /vobs/src. A single-component VOB tag consists of a leaf only—for example, /src. In all other respects, the examples are valid for ClearCase LT.
After relocating glib, examine the RelocationVOB hyperlink added to /vobs/gui.
% cd /vobs/lib
cmd-context setcs –default
cmd-context relocate -qall ./glib ../gui
Logfile is "relocate.log.09-Apr-99.14:11:37".
Selected "glib".
Selected "glib/file.c".
Do you want to relocate these objects? [no] yes
Checked out "." from version "/main/3".
Checked out "/vobs/gui" from version "/main/0".
Locking selected objects
Locked "glib"
Locked "glib/file.c"
Recreating selected objects
Created "glib"
updated branch "/main"
updated version "/main/0"
created version "/main/1"
Created "glib/file.c"
updated branch "/main"
updated version "/main/0"
created version "/main/1"
Cataloging new objects
cataloged symbolic link "/vobs/lib/glib/.@@/main/2/glib" ->
"../gui/glib"
cataloged symbolic link "/vobs/lib/glib/.@@/main/3/glib" ->
"../gui/glib"
cataloged "/vobs/lib/.@@/main/CHECKEDOUT.32/glib"
cataloged symbolic link "/vobs/lib/glib/.@@/main/1/file.c" ->
"../gui/glib/file.c"
cataloged symbolic link "/vobs/lib/glib/.@@/main/2/file.c" ->
"../gui/glib/file.c"
cataloged "/vobs/gui/glib@@/main/1/file.c"
Removing original objects
removed "glib/file.c"
removed "glib"
Checked in "/vobs/lib/." version "/main/4".
Checked in "/vobs/gui/." version "/main/1".
cmd-context describe vob:/vobs/gui
versioned object base "/vobs/gui"
created 09-Apr-99.13:50:16 by CCase Admin (clearadm.sys@propane)
"relocate target for former directory /vobs/lib/gui"
VOB storage host:pathname "propane:/usr1/vobstore/gui.vbs"
VOB storage global pathname "/net/propane/usr1/vobstore/gui.vbs"
VOB ownership:
owner clearadm
group sys
Hyperlinks:
RelocationVOB@33@/vobs/gui vob:/vobs/gui -> vob:/vobs/lib/
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