Clearcase 7.1.2, VOB Splitting

Question

We have a current set up of VOB such that source code and documents reside in the same VOB. To reduce the VOB download time we now want to move the documents to a new VOB, s

Answer 1

The process would involve cleartool relocate: see "Relocating elements to another VOB".

The best practice is to:

• group all the right elements you want to relocate in one folder (cleartool move)
• remocate that folder

It is best if what you want to split is cleanly group is one folder structure.

Note that relocate wouldn't work if you are using ClearCase UCM though.
See this article:

The reason for this restriction is immutable baselines: if an element has ever been in a baseline, it can never be moved to another place; the baseline needs to know where to look for it. So a UCM element really can't be relocated.