By mistake I have created the element in clearcase Can We rename that element with all my changes?

Question

I have some element in Clear case which has been reserved checked out by different view Now that view has been deleted Now I need to checkout these element but I am getting Error: "Element already has been checked out by different view " I am not able to un checkout these element Could you please some help?

Answer 1

Neeraj

Of course we can rename element without changing any thing.
Use below command to rename element:

cleartool rename old_element_name new_element_name

Now all attribute of old element name will assigned to new element.