Ok george,
Before you ever do ANY cvs commits, you MUST run cvs diff on the files that
you have changed. Period.
What this will do is show you the lines that have changed in the files. If
you notice that every single line has changed in the file (a whole mess of
"-" characters before each line followed by the same lines with a whole mess
of "+" characters before each line), then that means that something is
screwed up. Most of the time, this case means that you have changed the
formatting of the file. This is bad. You do not want to do that. The reason
is that it makes it impossible to tell exactly which lines in the files that
you have changed since they will all be marked as being changed. BAD!
Essentially, when you run cvs diff, you should ONLY see YOUR changes. You
should not see anything else.
So, now you must go back through all the files that you changed and fix the
formatting. The current formatting rules for the files are as follows:
No tabs. 4 spaces. Unix linefeeds.
blocks should look like this:
if ( foo )
{
}
vs.
if ( foo ) {
}
You should be able to setup your IDE to generate files like this. If you
cannot, I suggest that you switch IDE's. Also, if you are using an IDE that
moves the placement of methods around behind your back you should switch as
well. I personally use the Kawa IDE. <http://www.tek-tools.com/kawa/> It is
cheap and works great.
thanks,
-jon
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