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cleartool: Error: branch type "branch" not found in VOB "/<VOB-tag>" and no global type definition can be found

Troubleshooting


Problem

This technote details why a cleartool relocate fails with, [] cleartool: Error: branch type "branch" not found in VOB "/" and no global type definition can be found[] when attempting to move an element to a newly created target VOB.

Cause

Cleartool relocate aborts with the below error when attempting to move a single element, foo.c, from a source VOB, vob1, to a newly created target VOB, vob2:


    % cleartool setview view1
    [view1] % cd /vobs/vob1
    [view1] % ls
    dir1                             foo.c
    [view1] % cleartool relocate foo.c ../vob2
    Logfile is "relocate.log.13-Dec-99.15:11:11".
    Selected "foo.c".
    Do you want to relocate these objects?  [no] yes
    cleartool: Error: branch type "br1" not found in VOB "/vobs/vob2" and no global type definition can be found.
    cleartool: Error: Unable to create branch requested by -mkbranch option in config spec.
    cleartool: Error: Unable to check out "/vobs/vob2".


The relocate command above runs with no problem if a different view is set.

This error is occurring due to the config spec rules set for the view, view1:


    [view1] % cleartool catcs
    element * CHECKEDOUT
    element * .../br1/LATEST
    element * /main/LATEST -mkbranch br1

The above config spec contains an auto-make-branch rule for creating an instance of branch type, br1. This rule is being activated by relocate, because it wants to check out the target directory (which is /vobs/vob2 in this example). However, since the target VOB was newly created, it does not contain a metadata type definition for branch, br1. Hence, the checkout step fails and the relocate command aborts.

Resolving The Problem

  1. Use cleartool mkbrtype to create a branch type object for br1 within the target VOB locally, or
  2. Utilize an existing global metadata type definition for br1 in an Administrative VOB (AdminVOB) by pointing the target VOB to the Admin VOB using the hyperlink type AdminVOB; cleartool mkhlink AdminVOB vob:/Target-VOB-tag vob:/AdminVOB-tag.



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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

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