Re: [VOTE] merge the log-message-templates branch to trunk

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
...
>> Are there other examples "out there" like FreeBSD but different?
>
> I don't know. I was hoping to get something finished that satisfies the
> FreeBSD use case, and nothing else. They obviously have a need for this,
> else they wouldn't have written a custom patch. AFAIK nobody else has
> loudly complained about the lack of this feature or made concrete
> proposals for what it should look like.

I'm sure it has been discussed often before. I did a quick search of the
users@ archives, and found a relevant thread from 2006:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-08/0612.shtml

The OP mentions it as a hard requirement for them, and compares it with
some CVS feature. It also refers vaguely to prior discussions and even
design proposals (but no concrete links unfortunately). It might be worth
digging some more in the archives.

Also, lots of hits can be found if you google for "svn log template". For
instance on stackoverflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/983026/how-do-i-create-a-svn-commit-message-template-and-hook-to-verify

And apparently there is an analogous TortoiseSVN feature:

http://weblogs.asp.net/akjoshi/tsvn_3A00_logtemplate-_3A00_-Enforcing-strict-format-to-svn-check_2D00_in-mails.-

It might be interesting to see how the TSVN feature works (and analyze
whether our proposed API might be able to replace their implementation
eventually) ...

-- 
Johan