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Re: Miscellaneous bugs

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-10-09 05:37:34 CEST

Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:

> >>An empty log message (-m "") is converted to a single empty line.
> > Not in the repository, I think (?). 'svn log' adds a newline to
> > every
> > log message when it prints it out, though, right?
>
> Yes - that's the problem: it shouldn't do that if the message is
> empty or if it already ends with a newline.

Not true. The key is consistency here. If users know that a newline
is *always* added, then parsing programs know to *always* subtract it
to get back to the original log message.

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