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by hermitdev 843 days ago
I used ClearCase quite a bit (and other (ir)Rational tools) at a previous job. It sucked pretty hard. But, it didn't _require_ you to lock files. It _strongly encouraged_ you to, and made working with hijacked files a pain in the ass, though. In practice, this is largely worked around with branches, though. And, branches from branches... Kind of mimicking the distributed workflow we know with git with more branches.

But, yeah, ClearCase sucked pretty hard and was frustratingly slow. Also, too easy to miss adding files to source control and really annoying interface to _find_ view-private files. 0/10, would not use again unless I had a gun to my head.