Re: [RFC] Target aware commit message processing

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:10:26PM -0500, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
> I have been thinking about implementing commit message parsing such
> that one can delete unwanted targets out of the commit message listing
> to remove them from the commit (like svk).

I don't know how svk behaves (I've only used it briefly, and liked
it), but does this mean that if I had a commit message like:

  blah blah blah
  
  --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
  
  D a
  A b

and I deleted the 'D a' line, the commit would not delete 'a',
effectively ignoring this local modification? And the same would
work for 'A a' and 'M a' lines and such?

Is taking changes out of a commit the only goal here or is
there more to this feature?

> I have implemented a perl
> wrapper script that does this but it has a few issues. I might be
> able to work those issues out (though it isn't really worth it), but I
> definitly would rather have a built-in option.

Do you mean "command line option" or "optional functionality that
is enabled by default?" I mean, I'd rather have this work by default,
cause if I was to take a file out of a changeset while writing a
log message, it would be cumbersome having to exit the editor and
run 'svn ci' again with --parse-my-commit-message-please.

> My question: Who else thinks this would be useful?

It maps a bit of Subclipse's commit file selection dialog
into the CLI, so yeah, why not.

I think Subversion should definitly be informing the user
about changes it's omitting. Something like:

  "svn-commit.tmp" 4L, 60C written
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  Some items were removed from the commit message listing,
  omitting them.
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
  Omitting a
  Adding b
  Transmitting file data .
  Committed revision 1.

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