Correct svn commit message ?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 23 15:53:55 EDT 2011


John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Aug 23, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
>> Is this possible with our svn setup ?
>> 
>> A accidentally committed a couple of patches by Florian Haas without 
>> mentioning him as patch author in the commit message.
>> 
>> Am I allowed to fix these messages ?
>
> Geert,
>
> Unfortunately, the only way to change commit messages is to edit them in the raw repository; you'd need shell access to code.gnucash.org. I don't know what affect that would have on synchronization with remotes who'd already updated with the original message; I know that git's documentation discourages amending commits after publishing them.

That's not completely true -- it can be done via the svn command.  But I
believe it's limited to who has access to that functionality.  It does
not need to be done on a shell on code.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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