CVS problem fixed

I've been having technical difficulties with CVS since we started this project, but now the problems have been fixed and I can CVS my own work up, instead of having Jkomut do it for me. It's about time I get credit for my own work ;)

Anyway, the problem consisted of two things:
1) It claimed it couldn't chdir to my home directory. I thought this made no sense, since I was in a sub-directory of my home directory. After many weeks, I finally learned last night that I needed to ssh into the CVS repository itself exactly once to create my home directory on that machine.. someone could have told me sooner. Now I can CVS more than one file at a time on my account. And there was much rejoicing...

2) Our other problem was that the following sequence was causing problems:
I make a new version of the code.
I have Jason commit it to CVS.
Kyle uses Netbeans to download it from CVS.
(now Kyle has a copy with double the new-lines)
Kyle adjusts the code, but not the spacing.
Kyle commits his copy to CVS.
I download Kyle's copy, not using Netbeans.
Now I have a copy which is double spaced.

If we repeat the process without fixing it in between, the double spacing doubles and we get quadruple spacing.

One fix would be to use Dos2Unix before each commit. This is only necessary because the Windows versions of CVS such as the built in Netbeans stuff does a Unix2Dos without checking if it is necessary. WinCVS has the same problem, but luckily it does the Dos2unix automatically. So, now I am using WinCVS and hopefully our problems are over. Except that it seems to be corrupting our graphics files.. maybe we shouldn't be CVSing them?

Awesome As Always ;)
-Daniel Grund (istaran)