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Re: Empty log message replaced with "made a copy"

From: Ron Wilson <ronw.mrmx_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-08-23 16:47:32 CEST

Seems to me that "made a copy" would likely be shorter than the
setting of "tsvn:logminsize", anyway. Of course, "tsvn:logminsize"
only applies to operations performed through TSVN.

On 8/23/07, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 23/08/07, Matuschka, Sebastian <Sebastian.Matuschka@gcd-solutions.de> wrote:
> > i've made a pre-commit program for subversion that checks for empty log
> > messages and realized that if i copy a directory by clicking on Branch /
> > Tag in the context menu and enter no log message that the log message
> > will be "made a copy". So my pre-commit thougt the user entered a
> > message. At the moment i catch not only empty log messages but also
> > "made a copy". I've looked in the code of Tortoise an found the line
> > where "made a copy" is sent as log message when the log message is empty
> > in SVN.cpp:
> > if (logmsg.IsEmpty())
> > m_pctx->log_msg_baton2 =
> > logMessage(CUnicodeUtils::GetUTF8(CString(_T("made a copy"))));
> > As far as i know this is the only exception, but i don't know it
> > exactly, i'm not familiar with the tortoise code.
> > So my questions are:
> > Why is this there but not when other operations are made?
> > Are there any similar cases which i have to catch as empty log message?
> >
> > I looked in the newest SVN.cpp in the Version-Control-System, but it's
> > still there.
>
> There's a conflict in requirements here. Particularly in repo browser,
> these messages are useful as it is otherwise far too easy to just
> click through the OK button and create a copy or new folder with no
> log message at all. Been there, done that.
>
> On the oher hand, having a default message defeats pre-commit hooks
> and the tsvn:MinLogMinMessageMinLength (I know there's a Min in there
> somewhere).
>
> I don't know if it's possible to do this in repo browser too, but
> maybe if there is a min log message length set we could suppress using
> the default message?
>
> Simon
>
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