clearexport_cvs

clearexport_cvs works directly with the structured CVS files. It does not process the working files created with checkout and checkout –l commands. Be sure to check in working files with the checkin command before running the exporter. clearexport_cvs issues warning messages when it encounters checked-out files, but it still processes them.

clearexport_cvs ignores all CVS locks.

You must set the environment variable CVSROOT for the cvs command to work. If, for example, CVSROOT is set to /usr/src/cvs and an element archive is found in the CVS repository as /usr/src/cvs/gui/windows/main.cxxx,v, then an extraction command for a version of the element would look like this:

cvs get –Q –p –r1.1 gui/windows/main.cxx

You must share the drive that the CVS repository is on. This is because clearexport_cvs attempts to resolve the UNC path name regardless of what is shared. If the drive is not shared, you will have a path in the cvt_data file that looks like this: \\machine_name\c$\your_folder. The c$ directory is not accessible by clearimport, which fails with a message that indicates that the extract command could not be invoked.

During import, clearimport invokes a shell to extract data from the datafile. clearimport can handle some, but not all, characters that are special to shells. Import fails for any file name that includes any of these characters:

For example:

Before running clearexport_cvs, rename any file whose name contains these characters.

A CVS symbol is a mnemonic name for a particular revision or branch of a CVS file. clearexport_cvs translates the symbols to version labels and branch names (more precisely, to names of label types and branch types).

• Translation to version labels. Suppose a CVS symbol, RLS_1.3, names a revision, 3.5. clearexport_cvs places a description of label type RLS_1.3 in the datafile, and clearimport imports that label type and assigns a label of that type to the version created from the CVS revision.
• Handling of magic branches. When clearexport_cvs encounters a magic branch with a symbolic name in a CVS archive, it determines whether any versions have been checked in on that branch. If there are any, the magic branch's symbolic name is used as the name of the ClearCase branch; otherwise, the branch is ignored.
• Translation to branch names. Suppose a CVS symbol, rls_1.3_fixes, names a branch 3.5.1. clearexport_cvs outputs a description of branch type rls_1.3_fixes, and clearimport creates a branch of that type at the ClearCase version created from CVS revision 3.5.

Because there is no concept of a subbranch of the main branch, clearexport_cvs does not process single-digit symbols that name CVS branches. If a CVS symbol includes characters that are not valid in names of label types or branch types, clearexport_cvs replaces the offending name. For example, the CVS symbol C++ can be renamed to "C..".

A label type cannot have the same name as a branch type within the same VOB. If the same CVS symbol names both a revision and a branch (not necessarily in the same CVS file) clearexport_cvs renames one of them. For example, after exporting a symbol FX354, which names a branch, it may encounter the same symbol as the name of a revision in another CVS file. In this case, it creates label type FX354_1.

branch pre_import_work post_import_work 
label BL1.7 IMPORT_BASE 

When clearexport_cvs encounters a file or directory that cannot be exported (for example, a file with format problems or a broken symbolic link), it prints an error and continues. After creating the data file, the command prints a summary of the files and directories that could not be exported.

After you export data, do not move the data to another location before importing it.

It is not a good practice to move exported data between different operating systems or between operating systems with different architectures.

When you use the –A option, clearexport_cvs exports files found in CVS Attic directories. In most cases, these are zero-length files that have been removed from or never added to a particular CVS revision. When these files are imported into ClearCase, an empty version is created. While it can be useful to import these files into ClearCase, you should consider importing them onto a specific branch or stream where they can be referred to as needed but will not be selected by typical configurations.

Default

If you specify a directory as a source-name argument: (1) clearexport_cvs processes the files in that directory but ignores the contents of the subdirectories; (2) clearimport creates a directory element for source-name and for each of its subdirectories.

–r

clearexport_cvs descends recursively into all source-name arguments that are directories.

Default

clearexport_cvs processes all CVS revisions it finds.

–s date-time

clearexport_cvs processes only CVS revisions that have been modified since the time specified. Use this option for regular, incremental updating of an element from a CVS file that is still under development. Be sure to specify a date-time that covers the entire period since the preceding update. In other situations, it is probably better to use –I instead of –s.

clearexport_cvs determines whether to process a CVS archive by using the last-modified date/time of the archive. If this date/time is before the date-time you specify with –s, clearexport_cvs does not process any of the revisions in the archive. If the archive's date/time is after the date-time you specify, clearexport_cvs processes the following revisions in the archive:

• All revisions created since the specified date-time
• All revisions that have labels
• All revisions from which branches sprout

Note: In an incremental updating situation, if you remove a label or branch from a CVS revision, clearimport does not remove the label or branch from the element.

–p date-time

Like -s, but processes only versions modified with new metadata (labels, branches, attributes, and so on) or created prior to the specified time.

–I { now | date-time }

Processes important revisions only, but includes all revisions created since the specified time. A revision is important if any of these conditions is true:

• It is the most recent version on its branch.
• It has a label.
• A subbranch is sprouted from it.

Specify the time in one of the following formats:

date.time | date | time | now where:

date	:=	day-of-week | long-date
time	:=	h[h]:m[m][:s[s]] [UTC [ [ + | - ]h[h][:m[m] ] ] ]
day-of-week	:=	today |yesterday |Sunday | ... |Saturday |Sun | ... |Sat
long-date	:=	d[d]–month[–[yy]yy]
month	:=	January |... |December |Jan |... |Dec

Specify time in 24-hour format, relative to the local time zone. If you omit the time, the default value is 00:00:00. If you omit date, the default is today. If you omit the century, year, or a specific date, the most recent one is used. Specify UTC if you want to resolve the time to the same moment in time regardless of time zone. Use the plus (+) or minus (-) operator to specify a positive or negative offset to the UTC time. If you specify UTC without hour or minute offsets, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is used. (Dates before January 1, 1970 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) are invalid.)

Default

clearexport_cvs does not attach attributes to versions exported from CVS revisions.

–V

Attaches an attribute of type CVS_REVISION to each newly created version. The string value of the attribute is the CVS revision number of the exported revision. (clearimport creates attribute type CVS_REVISION, if necessary.)

If you use the –s option with this option, clearimport attaches CVS_REVISION attributes only to revisions created after the date-time you specified.

Each attribute requires about 1 KB of storage in the VOB database.

–S

If a CVS revision's state is not the default (Exp), attaches an attribute of type CVS_STATE to the newly created version. The string value of the attribute is the CVS state attribute of the exported revision.

–A

Specifies that files found in CVS Attic subdirectories are to be exported as if they were part of the main repository directory. For example, the CVS file, ./proj/Attic/main.c,v is exported as the element ./proj/main.c. For important information about importing these files into ClearCase, see Guidelines for handling files imported from CVS Attic directories.

Default

On UNIX and Linux systems, the value of P_tmpdir (set in the stdio.h system include file; you can override this value by setting the TMPDIR environment variable).

On Windows systems, the value of the TMP environment variable.

–t temp-dir-pname

Specifies an alternate directory for temporary files. This directory must already exist.

Default

As described in the section Handling of CVS symbols, clearexport_cvs may rename a branch or label type to avoid naming conflicts.

–T translation-file

Uses the specified translation file to control and record the conversion of CVS symbols to version labels and branch names.

Default

clearexport_cvs creates datafile cvt_data in the current working directory.

–o datafile-pname

Stores the datafile at the specified location. An error occurs if datafile already exists.

Default

clearexport_cvs processes the current working directory (equivalent to specifying a dot ( . ) as the source-name argument). If you specify a directory as a source-name argument: (1) clearexport_cvs processes the files in that directory but ignores the contents of the subdirectories; (2) clearimport creates a directory element for source-name and for each of its subdirectories (except one named CVS or cvs).

source-name ...

One or more path names, specifying CVS files and/or directories:

• For each specified CVS file, clearexport_cvs places a description in the datafile.
• For each specified directory, clearexport_cvs places descriptions in the datafile for each of the CVS files it contains. clearimport creates a directory element for the specified directory itself, and for its subdirectories (except one named CVS).

Each source-name can be a simple file or directory name or a wildcard as described in wildcards_ccase. Specifying a parent directory (..) causes an error, as does any UNIX or Linux path name that includes a slash or any Windows path name that includes a slash or backslash. Run this command in a directory under which the elements to be exported reside. If the CVS files reside in CVS subdirectories, use the –r option to enable clearexport_cvs to find them.