Committing Code

First, see what you need to commit by executing "cvs status" on your directories. It may be easiest to pipe the result of the status command to a file and execute "grep Status file.txt | grep -v Up-to-date" (on Windows, copy output to a file and "find Status file.txt > file2.txt" then "find /v Up-to-date file2.txt").

Commit early and often, with a few guidelines.

1. Do not use linux cvs to commit code edited under Windows. This causes linefeed headaches. If this happens, try the script pc2u to get rid of Windows linefeeds.
2. Does it compile under Windows?
3. Does it compile under Linux?
4. Did you write doxygen comments for public members?
5. When you check out a clean version of the code, does that compile under Linux and Windows?