svn commit: r197498 - head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zfs

[Max Laier]

On Sunday 27 September 2009 16:55:10 Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2009.09.27 07:02:21 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:51:58PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> > > Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > > I didn't, thanks. Unfortunately svn doesn't even allow forced
> > > > commits, which is a paintful regression compared to cvs.
> > >
> > > Subversion does allow editing a log message after the fact, but our
> > > commit scripts prohibit it.  This should IMHO be allowed, and cause a
> > > new email to be sent out to note the change.
> >
> > I recall that one of the reasons behind prohibition was to avoid issues
> > with CVS exporter.
> 
> I doubt the CVS exporter would have a problem, though I'm not 100%
> sure.  I think the problem is more that svnsync does not pick up the
> change, but des knows more about that than I do.
> 
> PS. I don't personally have a problem allowing people to edit commit
> messages, as long as it's "visible" and we knows what the side-effects
> are.

svn ps fbsd:forced r197498 head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zfs/zfs.8
svn ci -m "Revised commit message"

There you go.  Forced commit with no problem. Plus we can also record the 
revision that the forced commit message belongs to.

Disclaimer: Don't try this on the main repo before the SVN-meisters have had a 
look and approve.

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