Johan Corveleyn wrote: > 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.
Here's a description of CVS log message capabilities: <http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#The%20verifymsg%20And%20rcsinfo%20Files>. In essence, you can define: * a static template text (per repository path, with only the closest path winning); * a log message editor command (which can do as much processing as you like, similar to how the SVN_EDITOR configuration can do so, within the limitations of running on the client side); * a log message checker command (which could be done in Subversion in a pre-commit hook). > 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 The script in the answer by JoeRandomUser highlights a problem with putting template text above the 'ignored' line: aborting the commit by exiting the editor then doesn't work as expected. We could, I suppose, work around that by checking whether the template text has been altered. > 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) ... It's a static template text stored in a property, so I guess quite similar to stsp's current implementation. - Julian
