Any ex ClearCase or VSS users out there?

[Krzysztof Nowicki]

Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>>>>>> "Berny" == Voelker, Bernhard <bernhard.voelker at siemens-enterprise.com> writes:
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>     >> From the GUI perspective, I can say that the version tree browser
>     Berny> (see screenshot)
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> It's a bit hard to understand from a single screenshot, but maybe
> you can tell us how it compares to say 'bzr qlog' ?
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>     Berny> and the merge window are *really* nice.
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>     Berny> I've not tried to convert our ClearCase projects to
>     Berny> bzr yet, so unfortunately I could only help with basic
>     Berny> understanding of ClearCase ... 
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> And how would you try to do that ?
> 
>     Vincent
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ClearCase versions each file independently, so it's a bit like CVS (with the
difference that it also versions directories, while CVS doesn't). bzr log/qlog
prints a tree of commits affecting a file, so it's quite similar here. The main
difference is that ClearCase being a centralized VCS, always prints the full
version tree of a file including all branches, including those that haven't been
merged. This means that you can always preview the work of other people on their
private branches. If I understand Bazaar correctly this is not possible there,
even if everybody would work on checkouts or regularly push their private
branches to the repository.

I think however that with a bit of hacking it should be possible to produce a
full revision log of a file using the data stored in the repository, since
Bazaar tracks files using file ids. Am I right?