ClearCase UCM Mainline Configuration Management Pattern Question

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A configuration management pattern question (using Rational ClearCase UCM)

When I use the mainline approach I create new releases by: - create release 1 from mainline - on a certain moment baseline release 1, deliver release 1 to mainline - create release 2 from mainline - on a certain moment baseline release 2, deliver release 2 to mainline - create release 3 from mainline - etc...

Works very nice because the pathname is /main/release 3/latest instead of /main/release 1/release 2/release 3/latest etc...

However... when in release 1 are new elements that have to be propagated to later releases I can not use the mainline since the mainline is already on e.g. release 4.

The only thing I can do is deliver/merge from release 1 directly to release 2. The bad thing is that the pathname then becomes /main/release 1/release 2/latest for that files (and possibly later releases). That is I think not in line with the mainline approach.

What am I doing wrong?

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