Accessing DO versions

Learn how to access DO versions.

When you check out a DO version, it is winked in to your dynamic view. You can use a standard path name to access the file system data of a DO. However, VOB-database access is handled in the following ways:

• A standard path name to the DO references the version in the VOB database from which the checkout was made:

  % cleartool checkout -nc hello Checked out "hello" from version "/main/3". % cleartool mklabel EXPER hello Created label "EXPER" on "hello" version "/main/3".

  Wink in derived object hello. Use standard path name to access the version from which checkout was made.

• To access the checked-out placeholder version, you must use an extended path name:

  % cleartool mklabel -replace EXPER hello@@/main/CHECKEDOUT
  Moved label "EXPER" on "hello" from version "/main/3" to "/main/CHECKEDOUT".

If you process a checked-out DO version, as described in Converting derived objects to view-private files, HCL VersionVault reverts to its usual handling of checked-out versions. In this case, a standard path name references the placeholder version in the VOB database.