Re: raises hand for bite-sized issue #604

Justus Pendleton <subversion@ryoohki.net> writes:

> Greg Hudson writes:
>
> > Subversion associates exactly one log message
> > with a commit. I'm a little leery of it myself (it means that "svn log"
> > on a particular file will contain a lot of verbiage not directly related
> > to that file)
>
>
> I'm confused, why is a file involved in a commit if nothing about it has
> changed? If something about it has changed, why isn't that being mentioned
> in the log message?

What he means is, if I commit three files, 'foo', 'bar' and 'baz',
I'll have a log message that looks like:

   * foo
     (symbol1): bug fix

   * bar
     (symbol2): added docstring

   * baz
     (symbol3): renamed from `cymbal3'

Now, later I run "svn diff foo" (meaning, I only want to see the log
messages for commits involving 'foo'). I'll see that whole log
message up there. Greg seems to be suggesting that if we had, say,
per-file log messages, "svn diff foo" would simply show:

   * foo
     (symbol1): bug fix

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:58 2006