Re: Creating commits with empty changesets

Am Mon, 7. Nov 2011, 23:57:59 +0200 schrieb Daniel Shahaf:
> Assuming you have a versioned file called 'iota',
>
> % cp iota iota2
> % echo >> iota
> % svn ci iota
> (editor pops up)
> (shell out from editor)
> % cp iota2 iota
> % exit
> (back to editor)
> (enter commit message)
> (exit editor)

That appears to have worked. Although svn seem to kind of remember that the
file 'iota' ('COPYING' in my case) appears to have changed (e.g. with "svn log
COPYING"). This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of this technique: a
disadvantage because files that haven't actually changed are listed as
changed, which is creepy. An advantage, because if you take this into account
you can use all the files that were touched in the faulty commit for 'iota',
and the corrected commit message will appear when you run "svn log" for
them[1].

Thanks a lot,
Jö.

[1] Unfortunately, I noticed this only after arbitrarily choosing 'COPYING'...

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