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Episode: Introduction to SCM Interview with SteveBerczuk Background Steve: What is the work that you do (ie, you're not an SCM Person per se) ...

Base ClearCase FAQ 1.2.2: setview in scripts doesn't work Running "setview" without the " exec" flag starts a new shell. The following contents was found previously ...

SCM is Derived Object Management ClearCase brought in some novelty, around 1994, in the already long history of CM/SCM. Mainly, derived object management, made possible ...

Ignorance, Indifference The split not share philosophy (or bias) of CM has an interesting side effect: because tasks are assigned to different people, according ...

Base ClearCase FAQs : Base !ClearCase designs !ClearCase without UCM . The first FAQ of Base !ClearCase could be: do not use UCM, but as the rest of the answers ...

SCM Communications There is a thin boundary among two kinds of meta information to be managed, between communications and documentation . In fact, there is no ...

Communications won't Improve with Presentations Somebody offered once again to improve communications by organizing technical presentations. I disagree on principle ...

Marc Girod French Finnish, living in Ireland, working for LM Ericsson Software developer since 1985 (Pascal, Occam2, C , Perl) ClearCase user and later ...

Change and Configuration Management Tools #TopOfPage This list can include all the various types of related tools for Version Control, Bug Tracking, Change Tracking ...

Yet Another SCM Manifesto Answering a challenge in CM Tradition. See also CM Antithesis. Critique and discussion of this page were moved to a separate page. Artificial ...

Build Intelligence From the critique of Yet Another SCM Manifesto I am trying hard to get something out of this discussion with Frank (I hope it would be with others ...

Critique, and Discussion of Yet Another SCM Manifesto It is not SCM that aims at building intelligence systems (BTW, not only into an organisation but also into products ...

Limitations in Cascading Branches Summary The string length of the version extended path is a limiting factor. Above 128 characters, the processing time doubles. ...

Biased FAQ After I had written the don't use UCM FAQ answer, I got the following reply: : if your ambition is to add an entry to the ClearCase FAQ the bare minimum ...

Avoid Cascading away indefinitely If we avoid to merge back to where we branched off, i.e. to either /main or an integration branch, it seems that we would cascade ...

Philosophy Matters The refusal to deal with philosophy, in the name of practicality, is itself a philosophy. It also is, or at least implies, a certain opinion on ...

Ontology and Theology : Dimensions of Aristotelian Metaphysics Aristotle is largely an historical mystery. The books linked to his name were often written by disciples ...

CM Tradition and SCM Culture From PreHistory CM (before SCM) is characteristic of a tradition . In this tradition, the knowledge is individual. Information binds ...

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CM and Databases #TopOfPage Information and resources on the subject of CM for databases and database development (including version control of databases, schemas ...

Continuous Integration A practice from the method Extreme Programming in which the code base is built and tested not merely daily, but far more frequently, at least ...

Synergy Frequently Asked Questions Questions (Generated automatically from sections below) (To add a question, just add an entry to the answers ; ) ) Answers ...

Pragmatism and Blindness Pragmatism is most often invoked to stop a discussion, or to justify skipping a reflexion. This may at times be reasonable: we cannot spend ...

Implicit Branching Mercurial comes with a fresh approach to branching, at least to presenting it. You may not be aware of branching, until you pull somebody else ...

clearfsimport clearfsimport is a relatively recent tool in the ClearCase toolset, to import and update a vob copy of a directory tree. It is mentioned in a couple ...

(Base) ClearCase FAQ 1.2.7: How to perform mass checkins? On Unix: % cleartool lsco s cview me avobs fmt 'ci nc "%n"\n' cleartool The commands above will fail ...

(Base) ClearCase FAQ: 1.2.16 If I mkelem of a Directory, which is a view private object, I get the "Cleartool Error:Can't create directory element because "directory ...

ClearCase Unified Change Management $ : see other ClearCasePages on this CMWiki Questions (Generated automatically from sections below) (To add a question ...

Testing And SCM In my opinion, testing is something that can be audited, just like building. And if it produces a result (a report of some kind), it may be avoided ...

Build Management Automated, repeatable procedures that speed the build process, improve build accuracy and make it easier to create and maintain multiple versions ...

Managing an Open Source Community We saw that: an Open Source community is a community of producers (not consumers ); members of such a community are ...

The Committer Model of Open Source Projects like apache or subversion have relatively small lists of committers who can cooptate new members on the basis of ...

Prehistory From CMversusSCM, continued in CmTradition Prehistory is history before writing, before there were written records. Thus history is implicitly history ...

Abject Project Etymologically, a project is something thrown forwards . It describes thus an intention , a consistent vision in the future which unifies and gives ...

Control and Management The proponents of CM often use the words management and control in a sloppy way, to mean about the same thing (the use of the word control ...

The Mythical Fact What is scientific in a postmodern view, is not facts, but theories. Facts are not collected passively, but only obtained by designing tools and ...

Base ClearCase FAQ: 1.2.8 What is an evil twin? For reasons essentially bound to the management of a world under evolution, there cannot be full agreement on terminology ...

Philosophy and Practice I got once again a reply such as: : This can be a philosophical discussion : ) but my goal is to get practical. I am of course not the ...

Perceptions of SCM People often have a perception of SCM which is both shallow and narrow . They tend to consider SCM only as a support function, in the context ...

CM.RRanjit 14 Dec 2007

Add by rdcwayx Disable to delete element: cleartool mktrtype element all preop rmelem nuser cmadmin c "No one can delete an element" exec "ccperl e die()" ...

Agile SCM Articles Articles on the subject of SCM or (Development and Configuration Management) Also see articles on Integration Started by BradAppleton 06 Jan ...

UCM, why? I tried to explain that one should not use UCM, but stick to base ClearCase instead. Why then are many (although by large not all of those using !ClearCase ...

Don't Use UCM This may be considered as FAQ #0 of (base) ClearCase FAQ. It is acknowledgedly controversial: consider it the pending of an implicit equivalent preliminary ...

From the context of AuditedDependencies It seems I was blind to the fact that auditing is ambiguous, and seems to be interpreted in the context of verification ...

Audited Dependencies From GenericSemantics Genericity is a tradeoff. A generic structure should scale well, and thus allow to focus to wide or fine granularity ...

CM versus SCM? It seems we have separate lists of definitions for Software Configuration Management and for Configuration Management. Are these different? If so, what ...

Discussion of the opinion that SCM is CM's antithesis: Frank's opinion: The antithesis as presented by Marc is rather extraordinary, and it does not reflect the approach ...

The Number Analogy I am being told: : On the one hand it seems to me that the 'software' concept it important because configuration management should be done with ...