Accessing DO versions
Learn how to access DO versions.
When you check out a DO version, it is winked in to your dynamic view. You can use a standard path name to access the file system data of a DO. However, VOB-database access is handled in the following ways:
- A standard path name to the DO references the version in the VOB database from which
the checkout was made:
Z:\myvob\bin> cleartool checkout -nc hello Checked out "hello" from version "\main\3".
Z:\myvob\bin> cleartool mklabel EXPER hello Created label "EXPER" on "hello" version "\main\3".
Wink in derived object hello.
Use standard path name to access the version from which checkout was made.
- To access the checked-out placeholder version, you must use an extended path name:
Z:\myvob\bin> cleartool mklabel -replace EXPER hello@@\main\CHECKEDOUT Moved label "EXPER" on "hello" from version "\main\3" to "\main\CHECKEDOUT".
If you process a checked-out DO version, as described in Converting derived objects to view-private files, HCL VersionVault reverts to its usual handling of checked-out versions. In this case, a standard path name references the placeholder version in the VOB database.