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Re: [PATCH] limit commit message to 500 lines (was: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging)
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:06 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez
> <lopezibanez@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/8/16 Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com>:
>>> Could we put a limit to the commit log entry? More than 500 hundred
>>> lines changelog entries should just be rejected and this will avoid
>>> someone accidentally committing a full log or a diff or just random
>>> junk.
>>>
>>
>> The following patch to our pre-commit hook enables this. I have tested
>> it with a dummy repository but review from bourne-shell and/or
>> subversion knowledgeable people would be welcome.
>>
>
> When I add 600 testcases, should I mention each of them in commit log?
Yes.
IMHO 600 lines is too short. Can't we simply detect svnmerge logs somehow?
Richard.