Managing mastership in UCM/ClearCase

This section examines the constraints mastership imposes on the UCM usage model. First, let us look at some low-level details involving the remote deliver operation, then consider how this impacts our UCM usage models.

The posted-delivery process

Work is completed in Tokyo and ready for delivery to the integration stream that is mastered in Boston. How does this work?

Under the covers, the UCM deliver operation is checking out files on the integration stream, merging files, and checking them back in again. Standard UCM deliveries do not work with our mastership model—remote sites do not have rights to modify the integration stream. Instead they perform a posted delivery. A posted delivery sets a flag that ...

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