How can I update my branch from main and accept all of their changes in clearcase?

Question

I grabbed a file and did: rm -f theFile.C && ct update . to watch it get reloaded. Then I went to a different snapshot view of main and ran ct update . and the files differ. I am very perplexed about this given after doing that I would expect them to be the same!

The EDCS for my "main snapshot" is:

element * CHECKEDOUT
element * /main/LATEST
load /ntrepo

and my EDCS for my branch is:

element * CHECKEDOUT
element * /main/branch_name/LATEST
element * /main/LATEST -mkbranch branch_name
element * /main/LATEST
load /ntrepo

Answer 1

In an snapshot view, when the file doesn't match the expected version, the first thing to check is:

cleartool ls /path/to/parent/directory

And see what cleartool returns for that file.

For instance:

• it could be hijacked, which means a ct update . wouldn't overwrite the locally modified file.
• it could have a different version on branch_name, since that selection rules comes before /main/LATEST.