Seems like there was already a request: http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=4885
I even had a comment in there ... not sure how it got there but I guess it must have been me. Thanks for the advice. On Mar 22, 2:52 am, Ben Collins-Sussman <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we were simply being conservative when we launched our svn > service years ago. Log messages are unversioned metadata, so editing > them is a lossy/destructive process. We figured those facts, combined > with the assumption that log messages rarely get edited, means it was > best to give that power only to project owners. > > I can see the argument for what you're doing -- maybe file a feature > request to loosen this restriction? Of course, a workaround would be > to store the backport signals in some other revision-property that you > invent. (I think svn:log is special-cased to only allow owner edits.) > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Mike Ratcliffe > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I work on Firebug but have one annoyance shared by everybody else that > > commits to the project. We often add things to the commit log messages > > to signal that a change should be ported to a previous version e.g. > > [&1.7] but I often forget to do this. > > > Sadly, committers are not able to edit the log messages of their own > > commits so they have to contact the project owners and ask them to > > change the log message ... if a committer created the message then > > surely they should have the ability to change it? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
