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Progress on Code Crusader

November 29th, 2005

Ever since I started using CVS, I’ve been kicking myself for several old design choices:

• Putting too much junk in the .jcc file
• Not tracking whether or not the .jcc file really needs to be saved
• Not making the .jcc file line based so I can get something useful out of CVS diff

Over Thanksgiving, I finally got around to cleaning this up. The .jcc file is now line based, and all the local settings, like window positions, have now been moved to a new .jup file. This clears the way for tracking whether or not the .jcc file needs to be saved — my next weekend project — which in turn will tell me whether or not I really need to check it out from CVS. (I always configure CVS so I only get write permission after I run cvs edit. This makes it easy to find the files that I have changed, especially since Code Crusader now displays the write permission in the project window! )

*.jup can now be added to .cvsignore, just like *.jst. They are both tied to the specific machine on which the code is stored.

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