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RE: "svn commit" should always prompt after popping up a log message editor

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2003-09-25 17:57:10 CEST

> From: kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net [mailto:kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net]On
> Behalf Of kfogel@collab.net
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:58 PM

> "Leeuw van der, Tim" <tim.leeuwvander@nl.unisys.com> writes:
> > It's still only a half-way solution... I might, for instance, realize that I
> > forgot to 'svn add' a new file. So I still need a way to cancel out of the
> > commit. There are plenty of situations where I decide to cancel out of a
> > commit when entering my commit-message. (I use TSVN, so I can essentially
> > already do what is wanted here, without worrying about the commit still
> > happening by mistake)
>
> We're confusing two unrelated features in this thread:
>
> 1. The ability to edit the list of files in the commit group in the
> log message, so as to change what gets committed.
>
> 2. The ability to cancel the commit from $SVN_EDITOR, because one
> realizes while writing the log message that one isn't ready to
> commmit.
>
> (1) has never attracted enough support to get included in Subversion.

Actually, there was a patch. And it got nearly included IIRC. It's probably
still floating somewhere in the archives.

Sander

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