Re: Log length limit on Windows? Problem with using notepad as log editor?

"Brass Tilde" <brasstilde@insightbb.com> writes:
> How did you start notepad? Some windows executables return control to the
> calling process immediately, rather than forcing them to wait until the
> program completes. Notepad is one of these (at least from a DOS prompt).
> This would cause control to return to the svn invokation, which would then
> see an empty file (because Notepad hasn't saved it yet) and continue with
> not committing the revision because of an empty comment.

Wow!

Brass Tilde, I'll bet you've got it. This seems to match the symptoms
(Scott, to verify you could try committing with -m "" and see if that
gets the same result).

This is so unexpected that I think we should make a FAQ item for it,
even though it is not all that frequently encountered. Let's wait for
verification from Scott first, though.

> There may be a way to specify your editor string by invoking the command
> interpreter as the editor command, rather than the editor itself. For
> instance, you might set your editor command to "cmd.exe /C notepad.exe". I
> haven't tested it, so use at your own risk.

If this works, it can go in the FAQ item.

-Karl

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Received on Thu Dec 2 20:22:51 2004