Emmanuel Venisse wrote: > > Are you sure it isn't possible to checkout sources in a specific folder > with cleartool? >
It is possible with snapshot views. My ClearCase know-how is limited, but I am quite sure it is not possible with dynamic views. Do you think the suggested enhancement for scm-local would be useful and make sense? Not only in combination with ClearCase dynamic views but for other usage as well, e.g. testing. Regards, Arne >> That's true. Maybe we could enhance scm-local to keep its own metadata? >> In >> particular, >> scm-local could maintain a simple file, say .maven-scm-local, that >> contains >> as plain text the list of files in the source directory, as seen during >> the >> last checkout or update operation: >> >> - During checkout, the file .maven-scm-local is created in the checkout >> base >> directory. Its just a plain text file containing the list of files that >> have >> been checked out. >> - The update command looks for the file. If it is there, it compares the >> contents of that file to the current source directory contents (including >> subdirs). All files that are in .maven-scm-local but are no longer in the >> source dir, have been deleted in the source dir. The update command >> therefore removes them from the checkout dir. >> - If for whatever reason .maven-scm-local is not there, the update >> command >> won't delete any files. That way, we're backwards compatible. >> - After completing the update process, the update command rewrites the >> .maven-scm-local metadata file. >> - Even the changelog command can interpret .maven-scm-local >> - For add and checkin commands, I don't think that changes are needed. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Regards, >> Arne >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Update-over-scm-local-does-not-delete-files-removed-from-source-dir-tf2257460.html#a6289204 Sent from the Continuum - Users forum at Nabble.com.
