$EDITOR idea

On IRC, we discussed an idea about the $EDITOR text.

The current $EDITOR behaviour adds an "SVN: " string to the front of 'svn
status' output. To make it easier to create a log message, it would be nice to
also chop off the file after a special marker. Something like this:

---8<---
SVN: Enter Log. Lines beginning with 'SVN:' are removed automatically
SVN: Lines after "SVN-EOF" are removed automatically
SVN:
SVN: Current status of the target files and directories:
SVN:
SVN-EOF
M /path/to/foo
A /other/path/to/bar
SVN-EOF
SVN:
SVN: Current diffs of the target files and directories:
SVN:
[output of svn diff on the targets]
---8<---

This makes it easier for the user to delete one line (the first SVN-EOF line),
optionally rearrange the added/modified/deleted files, and add comments about
them, while looking at the diffs.

Craig

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Received on Thu Oct 3 05:43:48 2002