Cloning project versions

When creating a new project version, Black Duck lets you select an existing project version and clone its component edits, remediation details, and/or license term fulfillment status to the new project version. Use cloning to help reduce your workload by using the analysis and resolutions you defined in an existing project version as a baseline for a new version.

Unlike persistent edits which synchronizes edits made in one version to all other versions of that project, edits made to the baseline version do not propagate to the cloned version. This gives you the ability to experiment with the cloned version while keeping the original version intact. Note that if you have enabled persistent edits, then edits made to the baseline version will be propagated to the cloned version.

To successfully use cloning:

1. Enable cloning, as described below.

2. Run a scan to the new version.

Cloned information appears in the cloned project version for components that are the same as in the original project version: if a component is not included in the newly scanned files, then that component will not be included in the new cloned project version. Cloned information will appear in the cloned project version for components that were manually added in the original project version.

By default, all options are cloned:

• Additional Fields: Custom field information.

• Component Edits:

  • Component and/or version information

  • Review flag

  • License

  • Usage

  • Ignored components

  • Comments

  • Manually added components

  • Confirmed snippet adjustments

  • Policy violation overrides and comments

• Deep License Data

• Remediation Details:

  • Remediation status

  • Target date

  • Actual date

  • Remediation comments

• License Fulfillment Status. For license terms requiring fulfillment:

  • Fulfillment status (fulfilled or unfulfilled)

  • For fulfilled license terms, the user who fulfilled the term and the date it was fulfilled

• Version Settings:

  • License

  • Notes

  • Nickname

  • Release Date

  • Phase

  • Distribution

You can modify these settings by using the Cloning section in the Project Details section of the Settings tab of a project, as described here.