How to revert to initial changeset in RTC 3.0.1 using CLI commands

Question

We are trying to revert to the initial change set of a component in a stream in RTC 3.0.1. The motive is to make the workspace to be having only the initial changeset.

Can anyone please suggest a way to move forward with this?

We are using CLI for that purpose . The version of RTC 3.0.1.

Is there any commands to perform this task?

Answer 1

If you have made a baseline or a snapshot capturing that initial changeset, that is easy enough: you can select said baseline or snapshot in your repository workspace, and deliver it again to your stream.

But if you have not, considering it is the initial changeset, that is the initial delta, it can be considered as a revision (subsequent changesets are not like revision or commits, as they represents delta from the last changeset), the normal method is to:

• select the first baseline/snapshot you can find (the earliest one)
• discard changets until the first one

This is simimalr to Work Item 86931, which requested (in 2010) the feature for "Providing an operation on a workspace that rolls it back to the state it had at a particular date". 6 years later, that operation is... triaged.