[kforge-dev] grievous svn commit comment behaviour

Thu Jun 2 17:17:16 UTC 2005

* @ 31/05/05 06:27:05 PM jo at frot.org wrote:
> i've been musing over this voracious svn commentary issue. i found
> that 'svn commit' would comment the directory i ran that it, with the
> comment i intended for the file below it; but that 'svn commit .'
> works downwards through the tree even more voraciously, and 'svn
> commit *' isn't an option.
> 
> it is a little frustrating. i tend to make lots of small
> interconnected changes and commit lots at once, so everything gets
> similar commentary. in trying to make more granular ones i wonder at
> the fast-ticking version number, i suppose it will get up into the
> high hundreds without much effort, one just gets used to that?

export SVN_EDITOR=vim

I think...

> the line length chops off my comments which tend to be pretty verbose;
> i have dodgy scripts to generate rss feeds of my cvs commit comments;
> i should like to replicate that.

see webSVN... wot we use on openstreetmap, but we need to upgrade apache
to 2.0...

> 
> 
> -jo 
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have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/