Re: svn commit: rev 2442 - trunk/packages/freebsd/subversion

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:58:18PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:
> > i know exactly how it happened, and it was pilot error. for some
> > reason my network connection at home was flakey last night, and my
> > first few attempts to commit this failed, so i saved the log entry
> > to a file and waited till the morning to commit it. then when i did
> > it this morning i just did a 'svn commit -F ~/msg', and it got the
> > random crap at the end of the file that would have been filtered out
> > if it had come out of the editor.
> >
> > my bad, and thanks for cleaning it up for me.
>
> Dang. I *know* there was some thread about this recently, with some
> conclusion as to how -F should behave, but can't remember what we
> decided... Do you recall this?

i'm not sure what the resolution of the thread was (mind like a seive
lately...), but i'm personally leaning towards the idea that when we
take a message from a file via -F we should treat it exactly the same
as if we got it from the text editor, with the same filtering being
done, just to avoid mistakes like this.

-garrett

-- 
garrett rooney                    Remember, any design flaw you're 
rooneg@electricjellyfish.net      sufficiently snide about becomes  
http://electricjellyfish.net/     a feature.       -- Dan Sugalski
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