Commits

From ReactOS

Definition

In this case the term refers to data added to the Reactos SVN. I use the term data because its not limited to code, but may include any other media including icons and sound. If a piece of code is commited then it means that its part of the Reactos source code. Every commit has its own unique identification number (while I'm writing this, the last commit was r21010) and a messege explaning its purpose. See the Reactos SVN page for more details about commiting.

Commit Notices

Every time something is commited several things happen

• The CIA-n irc bot in #reactos notifies the room of the event

<CIA-9> jimtabor * r21010 reactos/subsys/win32k/objects/dc.c: GetCurrentObject does not SetLastError() on a null object.
Notice that the first part identifies the user, jimtabor in this case, and the revision number. Then the path of the changed files is diplayed relative to svn.reactos.org/trunk/ and finally the log message. There is also a notice given in #commits where every other cia message can also be viewed.

• The Reactos CIA page also shows the message of the last few commits.
• Mails with changes in each commit are sent to two mailing lists. There is ros-svn which will receive plaintext mails with descriptions of the changes. There is also ros-diffs which will receive mails containing the changes in highlighted html mails for easy reviewing. In this link you can find more info about ros mailing lists.