Overview of Rational Team Concert source control

The source control component of the Jazz™ technology platform manages the source code, documents, and other artifacts that a team creates. It provides change-flow management to facilitate sharing of controlled artifacts, retains a history of changes made to these artifacts, and enables simultaneous development of multiple versions of shared artifacts, so that teams can work on several development lines at the same time.

A software development team typically works with a large base of files that comprise the source code for a software product or system. As a team member, you work within this base of source code, changing file content to add new features or fix defects. After you verify that your changes are correct (by building and testing the code in a private workspace, for example), you share the changes with the rest of the team, whose members have also been changing files, including ones on which your work depends. Rational Team Concert™ source control organizes versionable items (files and folders) into components and streams, and provides workspaces where you can view and modify file and folder contents. Together, these repository objects represent the configuration of the system being developed and allow any configuration to be retrieved, shared, or built. They organize a team's files, track and share changes, and keep the entire team working in concert to achieve common goals.

Rational Team Concert source control is closely integrated with the other application development lifecycle tools included in Rational Team Concert.
  • The Jazz Build Engine and Build System Toolkit have built-in support for loading files from Rational Team Concert source control, capturing snapshots of build input so that a build can be reproduced exactly, and provides direct access to a rich set of tools that you can use to view the component versions that are present in a specific build and compare them with versions in other builds, streams, and workspaces.

    For more information, see Building with Jazz Team Build.

  • Change sets can be linked to work items, enabling traceability of individual changes and insight into the reasons why they were made.

    For more information, see Tracking work items.

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  • Process preconditions can be used to control the flow of change sets. For example, you can configure a process so that a change set must be reviewed and approved before it can be delivered to an integration stream.

    For more information, see Working with projects, teams, and process.

License note: To perform the task described here, you must be assigned the Developer Client Access License. Starting Rational Team Concert 2.0.0.1, Contributors can also deploy and manage report templates and create their own reports from those templates.

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