Removing a View
To permanently remove a view (including its entries in the ClearCase registry and all
references to the view held by any VOBs), use the ClearCase Administration Console:
1 Navigate to the view storage node for the view. This is a subnode of the host node
for the host where the view storage directory resides.
2 Click Action > All Tasks > Remove View.
You can also use the cleartool rmview command.
If you have tried to remove a view by simply removing its storage directory, use the
following procedure to remove references to the view still held by VOBs:
1 Run the cleartool describe command, and note the view’s UUID from the list of
views referenced by a VOB:
cleartool describe –long vob:vob_tag
If the view tag still exists, you can use lsview –long to find the view UUID.
2 If the view tag still exists, remove it from the registry. In the ClearCase
Administration Console, you can use the View Tags node for the tag’s regions to
remove view tags. You can also use the following command:
cleartool rmtag –view view_tag
3 Unregister the view. In the ClearCase Administration Console, you can use the
View Object node to remove a view object. You can also execute the following
command, using the view’s UUID from Step 1:
cleartool unregister –view –uuid uuid
4 Remove references to this view from each VOB that holds them. In the ClearCase
Administration Console, you can use the Referenced Views subnode of a VOB
storage node to remove a view’s records from a VOB. You can also execute the
following command, using the view’s UUID from Step 1:
cleartool rmview –all –uuid uuid
After you have removed references to the view from all VOBs, remove the view storage
directory if any of it remains.
