Julian Foad wrote:
Hi Julian :).
> Olleg Samoylov wrote:
> Issue #1870 "Don't add extra blank line to log messages" is the right
> one. It contains a patch to not add an extra line to an EMPTY log
> message, but it should discuss the whole issue of trailing newlines.
I already sent patch half year ago to remove trailing newlines at stage
"svn commit". There was a great discussion about it. And you took part
in it also. But in spite of your support, Karl Fogel rejected it. Reason
was:
> I am totally, completely opposed to Subversion taking the trailing
> newline off my log messages. Take my house, take my car, take my
> piano (well, no, leave the piano please) but DO NOT TAKE my trailing
> newline.
And from Greg Hudson:
> in the ideal case, svn:log properties should be thought of as a series
> of lines, and we should ensure that they are by requiring that they have
> a final newline.
>
> Since we can't (or at least don't want to) modify the svn:log properties
> of existing repositories, we would also append a final newline in the
> display code to svn:log properties which don't have one.
Now I write patch worked at stage "svn log". What I need to do also to
fix this very old issue?
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Olleg Samoylov
Received on Wed Feb 22 15:25:09 2006