How to use ClearCase Annotate

Question

I\'m trying to use annotate but have a problem: The output ignores some information (date and username) if it was displayed for the same version before. I\'d like to display

Answer 1

You could use -force to get rid of that (.) character. This is what I am using for my script - cleartool annotate -all -fmt "%Ad %-8.8u %-100.150Vn | " -nheader -force <filename>

Answer 2

According to the cleartool annotate man page, that command always uses an "elide-format", precisely to avoid duplicating informations on lines modified by the same author.

So the only solution would be to parse the result of that command in order to insert the relevant information.