Suppose I have a VOB foo/. In this VOB lies a directory bar/ which contains labeled and non-labeled files. But bar/ is not the only directory in foo/, but all others don't have labeled files. Is there a way to write a config spec with the following behaviour:
- load all elements that are checked out
- for every directory except foo/bar/ load the main/LATEST version
- for the directory foo/bar/ load only the files which have that specific label, if this label does not exist, do not load the main/LATEST version
The normal config spec would be
element * CHECKEDOUT element * LABEL element * /main/LATEST load /foo
But obviously it would then load also the non-labeled versions in /foo/bar. Thanks in advance.
You can add paths to your config spec in order to apply specific selection rule to said paths:
element * CHECKEDOUT element foo/bar/... MYLABEL element foo/bar/... -none element * /main/LATEST load /foo
I would recommend testing that config spec in a dynamic view first, then apply it to the snapshot view.
The three dots notation (foo/bar/...
) means: the bar
folder and all its subelements.
Note that this won't always display all elements labelled with MYLABEL
: if one the parent folders has not the label MYLABEL
, no other sub-element will be visible, accessible and selected.
This is especially true here considering the rule element foo/bar/... -none
which is there to prevent selecting /main/LATEST
for foo/bar
(is there is no MYLABEL
)
The order of the rules is important here, since the first one which applies is the one used by ClearCase: you can find a similar idea in "ClearCase view that ONLY shows files/directories attached to a label (not latest)"