accurev

I understand git, Subversion, CVS and a myriad of other source control systems. I've begun using Accurev and it confounds me. I believe I need to form a mental model that relates it to other SCM's. Ideally relative to git because I understand git the best. I would explain git as "a directed graph of commits where a commit is a diff, a parent (or parents) hash, and a hash of itself." You can easily move on from there to explain concepts like rebase and what merges really are, fast-forward vs. actual merges and so on. I've found it easy to teach new users complex git concepts in about 15-20

How can I cleanup the workspace in Jenkins? I am using AccuRev as version control tool. I created freestyle projects in Jenkins. Nagendra Singh There is a way to cleanup workspace in Jenkins. You can clean up the workspace before build or after build. First, install Workspace Cleanup Plugin . To clean up the workspace before build: Under Build Environment, check the box that says Delete workspace before build starts. To clean up the workspace after the build: Under the heading Post-build Actions select Delete workspace when build is done from the Add Post-build Actions drop down menu. If you

My question is about the way in which Git handles branches: whenever you branch from a commit, this branch won’t ever receive changes from the parent branch unless you force it with a merge. But in other systems such us Clearcase or Accurev, you can specify how branches get filled with some sort of inheritance mechanism : I mean, with Clearcase, using a config_spec, you can say “get all the files modified on branch /main/issue001 and then continue with the ones on /main or with this specific baseline”. In Accurev you also have a similar mechanism which let’s streams receive changes from upper