On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@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
