Notes from the version control BOF at the summit

[Daniel Berlin]

>
> With such automatic generation, it would be nice for the checkin 
> comments
> themselves to be versioned objects, so that a spelling or other 
> correction
> could be checked in to a previous checkin comment (and automatically
> update the ChangeLogs thereby, without changing the history of 
> ChangeLogs
> on old tags corresponding to the previously tagged version of the 
> checkin
> comment) - but with this being a versioned action with the history
> properly recorded, it would be safer than cvs admin to have available 
> to
> all with write access.  But I don't know if any version control 
> systems do
> have versioning of checkin comments.
>
While it's not my "drug" of choice (Go monotone!), the checkin comments 
are simply a property in subversion, and all properties are versioned, 
so you can do this.