SnapshotCM Tips and Tricks

• Moving a snapshot: Did you know that you can use the Snapshot Properties dialog to move a development snapshot to another development snapshot location? Just enter the full or relative path of the desired new snapshot name into the Name: field. The new location can even be in another project as long as it remains the same type (release or development) in the new location.
  Note, you can also change a snapshot's name using in-place name editing, but this cannot be used to move a snapshot.
• Drag and drop check out and check in: Did you know that you can drag files from the workspace view to the snapshot view to check in or import them, and from the snapshot view to the workspace view to check out or lock them?
• Simple command-line promoting: Did you know that several of the snapshot (ss) commands understand defaults based on the current workspace? From any directory in your workspace, you can update your mapped snapshot from its parent, simply by running ssupdate. Similarly you can promote your snapshot's changes to its parent by simply running sspromote. sscompare will also compare your snapshot with its parent. No additional arguments are needed. Of course, to check in your files before promoting them, run a recursive wci command, such as: wci -R /
• Command Highlight: wmerge: Wmerge merges changes from a snapshot file into a workspace file. It is used to merge changes checked into a snapshot from another workspace into modified versions of the same file in your workspace. Typically, you simply need run only

  wmerge .

  to perform all required merges in the working directory. Options exist for other situations. If those other situations are common, consider making the appropriate options defaults by adding them to the command-line options file. (For information on the command-line options file, see the Default Options section of the wco manual page.)