SonarQube showing wrong information from clearcase "Blame"

Question

I configured a project in SONAR(6.1) to run from jenkins and configured to use clearcase as scm.

sonar.scm.provider=clearcase

And our clearcase is configured to use Local and Tst Streams.

Now when i checkout and checkin any changes into Local Stream for the first time it creates new branch for the changes .

When i checked the clearcase annotate(BLAME) information, its showing up correctly. But in SONAR it is showing incorrect.

Here is the information from annotate

0 sgadey01 \main\FW_3.0.0.0_TST\FW_3.1.2.0_TST\FW_3.1.2.0_LOCAL\1 | | System.out.println("testing");

and information from SONAR as in the below link with user bdiaz.

https://s28.postimg.org/8m8l921rh/sonarerror.png

Is there any known limitation with sonar? for cvs plugin they mentioned revision has to be passed manually in limitations(https://github.com/SonarSource/sonar-scm-cvs).

Thanks sandy

Answer 1

The SonarQube ClearCase SCM Provider is simply running cleartool annotate from command line and parsing output (see https://github.com/SonarQubeCommunity/sonar-scm-clearcase/blob/master/src/main/java/org/sonar/plugins/scm/clearcase/ClearCaseBlameCommand.java) so I'm really surprised you get different results.

You can try to restart analysis and force the SonarQube scanner to collect blame again (there is a cache to not compute blame on files were content was not changed compared to previous analysis):

sonar-scanner -Dsonar.scm.forceReloadAll=true