To check out files and directories
About this task
Checking out makes file or directory versions writable in your view.
- To check out files and directories from a command prompt:
- In a view, use cleartool
checkout. For example:
This command checks out specified files in the current directory.
cleartool checkout -query a.c b.c c.c
This command checks out the current directory.
cleartool checkout -query .
- Describe the changes that you plan to make.
- To finish entering comments, complete one of the following actions:
- Press Return, type a period on a blank line, and press Return
- On the UNIX system or Linux, press Ctrl+D+D on a blank line.
Tip: On the UNIX system or Linux, you can cancel the checkout operation by entering a standard interrupt signal such as Ctrl+C before typing a period or pressing Ctrl+D+D.If you work on a UCM project, the versions that you check out are assigned to the activity currently set in your view.
- In a view, use cleartool
checkout. For example:
- On Windows systems only, you can check out using HCL
VersionVault Windows
Explorer or Windows Explorer.
- In VersionVault Windows Explorer or Windows Explorer, access the view and select checked-out files or directories.
- Access the HCL
VersionVault pop-up menu by
doing one of the following:
- In VersionVault Windows Explorer, right-click the selection.
- In Windows Explorer, right-click the selection and click VersionVault.
- Click Check Out. The Check Out window opens.
- In the Comment field, describe your planned changes. Comments are displayed in the Properties Browser for the version and in the History Browser for the element.
- If you work on a UCM project, verify the currently set activity. To set a different activity
(or, if you have not set the view to an activity), perform the following actions:
- Select an activity from the list.
- Click New to create and set a new activity.
- Perform one of the following actions:
- To check out one file only, click OK.
- To use the current settings in this window for all selected items, click Apply to All.
- To interrupt the checkout process and to leave this and any remaining items checked in, click Cancel.