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Re: Feature request: Auto-logging of merges

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-06-16 15:19:29 CEST

"Scott L. Burson" <Scott@solidcore.com> writes:
> Of course you don't want to be locked into maintaining poorly-thought-out
> functionality. On the other hand, I don't see how that locking in would
> happen in this case; my proposal seems to me to be a user interface
> enhancement, not a change to an API or protocol.

Any part of the user interface is like an API change, in that once we
add it, we must support it forever (or a very long time, anyway). The
UI is a protocol. It is the protocol by which users communicate with
Subversion, in the same way that the network protocols are the way the
clients interact with servers. Once we support something in the user
protocol, we can't just drop it later if we decide we don't like it.

I think this might be easier to talk about if you made a detailed
proposal. What would the property name be, under exactly what
circumstances would it be set and on what targets, how exactly would
it behave w.r.t. the log message, how would it interact with things
like 'svn commit -m "foo"', and so on?

-Karl

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