cleartool ls: Error: Pathname is not within a VOB: “.”

Question

I am trying to use cleartool to browse some CC repositories. I can get a list of VOBs from lsvob but when I pick a VOB entry, cd into it, and try to do ls . to see what's inside, I get the following error message:

cleartool> ls . cleartool: Error: Pathname is not within a VOB: "."

The following link says I have to be within a view to run ls but how do I know where to go if I can't get a directory listing -- or a view listing to go to.

http://ejostrander.com/cc_errors.html#ERROR19

It seems kind of like you have to already know where you wanna go to and can't get a list of choices.

Question: How do I go past this point?

Thanks

Answer 1

You must be on Unix in order to be able to do a cd /vobs/aVobTag, but that won't give you anything as long as you aren't in a view (or as long as you didn't do a cleartool setview aViewTag, which would allows /vobs/aVobTag do display anything: see "ClearCase setview").
Plus those are for dynamic view consultation, which means you need to mount the Vob first (cleartool mount)

Create a view first, I recommend a dynamic one (easier and quicker to setup: see "How to open a dynamic view in clear case with a given config specs using command prompt?" as an example), and go to:

cleartool mount /vobs/aVobTag
cd /view/yourView/vobs/aVobTag

You will see files there, provided you had checked in files on the /main branch, since the default config spec of a Base ClearCase view is element * /main/LATEST: see "Config spec in Rational ClearCase".