Re: clearcase mode and changing task

[Scott Andrew Borton <9-scott-9@pp.htv.fi.invalid>]

"Dan Elliott" <dan_elliott_at_cox_dot_net@noSpam.org> writes:

> "Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> wrote in message
> news:uk6sx2e4p.fsf@terrapin.northbound-train.com...
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Dan Elliott wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to change my current task while within emacs when
> > > using the clearcase mode?  I am guessing this would be difficult
> > > since it spawns a new shell.
> >
> > Forgive me for being dense, but what exactly do you mean by "change my
> > current task"?  Is that a ClearCase term?
> 
> Yes, it is a clearcase term.  I am certainly not a clearcase expert, but for
> me it determines which files are visible to me.  When I set a task from the
> command line is starts a new shell process.

The standard ClearCase term for what you're describing is "view" (executing
a "setview" command spawns a new shell using the desired view context,
affecting which files you see). If you call them "tasks" I suspect that it
is a local term. I also guess that you're working in Unix, because CC in
Windows handles views in a rather different way.

If you want to read files in another view, you can still do that using the
normal ways (by specifying a complete path to that view/version). If you
want to cheat, you can also modify the config spec for your current view so
that the file you want to view/modify will become visible in your current
view. However, if you want to check in/out files in another view, I imagine
that your original guess is correct: because the other view exists in
another process, you'll just have to start a new emacs from that other
shell. At least that's what I always did when I was using emacs with CC.


--scott

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