All command line tools handle baseline content items and variant content items uniformly. For example, you can dump them using cm dump, approve them using cm approve, and so on.

The output of cm serverexport contains a marker for variants in the attribute variant of the XML root node, which can be either true or false. The tool cm serverimport respects this flag when creating content items.

The tool cm validate-multisite adjusts its rules to the special semantics of baselines and variants. For example, it issues no warning if a test case variant has not been translated, because you typically perform tests in a single site and do not need to translate them.

The tool cm cleanvariants removes variants that have become unused because their baseline was deleted or destroyed. See Section, “Clean Variants” in Content Server Manual for details.