Emacs/ClearCase Integration
This page is the home of clearcase.el, an Emacs extension to integration
with ClearCase, a product of Rational Software.
The most recent version is /main/laptop/166,
which can be downloaded from here.
The author is kaesler@us.ibm.com with a lot of help from many contributors.
Summary of features
- Keybindings compatible with Emacs' VC (where it makes sense)
- Richer interface than VC
- Works on NT and Unix
- Context sensitive menu (Emacs knows the ClearCase-status of files)
- Snapshot view support: update, version comparisons
- Can use Emacs Ediff for version comparison display
- Dired Mode:
- en masse checkin/out etc
- enhanced display
- browse version tree
- Completion of viewnames, version strings
- Auto starting of views referenced as /view/TAG/.. (or \\view\TAG\...)
- Emacs for editing comments, config specs
- Standard ClearCase GUI tools launchable from Emacs menu
- version tree browse
- project browse
- UCM deliver
- UCM rebase
- Operations directly available from Emacs menu/keymap:
- create-activity
- set-activity
- mkelem,
- checkout
- checkin,
- unco,
- describe
- list history
- mkbrtype
- update view
- version comparisons using ediff, diff or applet
- Auto version-stamping (if enabled, e.g in this file)