Re: [PROPOSAL] enforce log messages as series of lines

On 2006-03-01 14:46:08 -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> -1 (vote, not veto). Two principal reasons:
>
> - We should never silently munge the user's UTF-8 commit message
> (such as adding or removing newlines). We should do our best to
> respect the log as provided to us.

I disagree with you. Otherwise svn should be modified so that
"svn ci -m '...'" and "svn ci" with the log message entered in an
editor should behave in a consistent manner, taking into account
that the string after the -m doesn't normally contain a newline,
and in an editor, the user can't remove the newline before the
line "--This line, and those below, will be ignored--".

The user mustn't be forced to use a hook to avoid an inconsistency
that svn introduced.

But IMHO, a normalization of the log file makes sense. After all,
there's already charset conversion to UTF-8 (and EOL conversion?).

> - We should never silently retroactively 'reformat' historical log
> messages.

Why not, but unless the chosen format would produce garbage (e.g. a
format without an additional newline). In such a case (no reformat),
then a tool (based on "svnadmin setlog"?) should be supplied so that
the user can easily reformat all the old logs if he wishes.

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