Personally I'm -0 on this. Have never had any problem editing the
current format to get the desired result, and don't want to wait for
diff to run before my $EDITOR pops up...
Just my $0.02, though. If enough people prefer the new behavior, and
a patch comes in, I certainly won't resist :-).
-K
"Craig Peterein" <craig@peterein.org> writes:
> 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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