Design Document and Checkpoint

Since you are not working from a substantial skeleton this time, we are asking that everybody submit a design document describing their implementation strategy. It is not graded, but we will insist on having it before helping you with bugs in your program (in Office Hours or via Gitbugs) . See Lab 13 for details on writing a high quality design document.

There will be an initial required checkpoint for the project, due Friday 4/22 at 11:59PM. The checkpoint is worth 4 points. It consists of a programming portion, as well as a conceptual quiz on Gradescope.

You can complete the conceptual quiz on Gradescope by clicking on the assignment titled Projet 3: Gitlet Checkpoint Quiz. The quiz is out of 1 point, and tests your understanding of the Gitlet commands. You have unlimited tries to complete the quiz before the deadline, and should see feedback on the answers you choose. The project lateness policy will not apply to the checkpoint quiz, so any late quizzes will receive a score of 0.

For the remaining 3 points from the checkpoint, you can submit the programming portion using the tag proj3a- n (where, as usual, n is simply an integer.) The checkpoint autograder will check that

• Your program compiles.
• You pass the sample tests from the skeleton: testing/samples/*.in. These require you to implement init, add, commit, checkout -- [file name], checkout [commit id] -- [file name], and log.

In addition, it will comment on (but not score):

• Whether you pass style checks (it will ignore FIXME comments for now; we won't in the final submission.)
• Whether there are compiler warning messages.
• Whether you pass your own unit and acceptance tests (as run by make check).

We will score these in your final submission.

For the checkpoint grader, when it is released on Tuesday 4/12, you will be able to submit once every 6 hours with full grader outputs. Starting Monday 4/18, you will be able to submit once every 3 hours with full grader outputs. On the due date, Friday 4/22, there will be no restrictions on the grader.

NOTE: The checkpoint grader restrictions are much more lenient than the main project 3 autograder.