Rational Team Concert: Merging only selected work items from a stream to its child.

Question

We are planning to create a child stream(for each major release, at the time of release) from the integration stream and continue to use the child stream for that particular release.

Say, we've created this child stream on 1st Feb 2013. Development continues on the integration stream and nothing is delivered into the child stream. So, from 1st Feb to 30th April we deliver several work items to the integration stream and some of the work items are identified as changes that needs to go to the child stream as well. All such work items will be marked with a specific tag.

Now, is there a way to deliver only the change sets associated with these work-items into the child stream from the integration stream.

Answer 1

is there a way to deliver only the change sets associated with these work-items into the child stream from the integration stream.

Not easily, especially considering that delivering some change sets and not other is likely to end with a gap in the history of those files (and they are not easy to find).

What you can do is select change sets listed in those work items, and select New -> Patch from the context menu.
You will transform those change sets in patches that you can apply anywhere you want.

The trick is to manage to list all change sets from WI with a specific tag