RE: [TSVN] Re: 1.0.7 - Commit Log Message

On 21 July 2004 11:25, Paul Morrow wrote:
> Will Gayther wrote:
>> I recently upgraded from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7, and was very suprised to
>> find that I suddenly could no longer actually do a commit. The
>> "Enter Log Message" dialog came up, but the "Ok" button stayed
>> greyed out.
>>
>> After 15 minutes, I figured out that my log message now had to be at
>> least 10 characters in length. I tried changing to message length to
>> 0 so I wouldn't have to enter a message at all, but it still
>> requires at least 1 character.
>>
>> I think you should be able to turn off requiring a message, and I
>> think that the "require minimum log message length" should be off by
>> default.
>>
>> I think it's a bug - what do you guys think?
>
> Not a bug, but it is an annoyance, and doesn't achieve the intended
> results. Forcing *any* comment is silly (I can type 10 Xs as
> my comment
> almost as easily as 1 X. I pretty fast with asdfasfasdf too). Now
> maybe if you could force a *meaningful* comment, that could be
> justifyable. But plz... don't try to do that!
>
> I use svn as my own personal versioning file system, where I regularly
> commit changes which don't represent any particular state that can be
> easily described ("Rats, running late for that appt. I'll
> commit this
> and get back to it later. What, I have to enter a log message? Ok:
> pwerpwerqoiweriou. There...").

Agreed. I like to use it for keeping backups in case of disk problems too.
When I get to a significant point I put in meaningful comments, when I'm
just saving a file in case there's a problem I just wnat it to be fast.
Tsvn/svn is great for keeping track of my bookmarks.html - it's easy to back
up and find what's new etc so I can send a diff home. It's similar with
saving my /home directory for Cygwin too, that's just or personal use and a
timestamp and a trawl through the log is good enough.
It's different when working on a project with others, but that's not the
only way it's used, I have a personal repo for my stuff and intermediate
saves for development, and another repo for the shared project work -
ideally I'd have optional comments for my stuff and compulsory comments for
the group repo.

Just my 2c.

Bill

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