Re: raises hand for bite-sized issue #604

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:31:50PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
>...
> And there are many other ways to solve this, in addition the one Mike
> pointed out.
>
> -1 on Subversion parsing the log message. Let's please not go there.
> In the same sense that some changes are "bug sources", this has the
> potential to be a very fertile "unexpected behavior source", while
> adding no functionality that can't be gotten in other ways.
>
> If someone wants to write their pre-commit hook scripts to parse log
> messages, that's different. But Subversion itself shouldn't ship with
> that functionality built in.

If the client is going to insert a bunch of lines (e.g. with the files that
are being changed), then the client better remove the lines that it
inserted.

The last thing that we want is to ship a system that inserts a bunch of
stuff into the log message and then ends up dumping all of that into the
logs on the server.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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