Feature request: one global commit batch with different commit messages?

[Luc Chapon]

Hello

I don’t commit file by file, or atomically everytime I make one modification.

Usually, I launch the commit dialog on one folder and see what's there to be committed.

I often have to deal with multiple modified files, for various reasons, and only have the possibility of one unique global commit message.

What I do then is uncheck all, then select the files I want to commit with one specific message, commit, and then relaunch the commit dialog on the folder, etc, etc, Time consuming and error prone! I just made a whole commit batch with a wrong message, and I can not edit the commit message.

I long for a “per line” message feature, where the general commit message would be the default one, but where I could set a specific commit message on some files.

Tortoise would then have, I guess, to make several commit batches based on commit message comparison.

[Daniel Sahlberg]

Den fre 16 apr. 2021 kl 13:31 skrev Luc Chapon via TortoiseSVN <torto...@googlegroups.com>:

Hello

I don’t commit file by file, or atomically everytime I make one modification.

Usually, I launch the commit dialog on one folder and see what's there to be committed.

I often have to deal with multiple modified files, for various reasons, and only have the possibility of one unique global commit message.

What I do then is uncheck all, then select the files I want to commit with one specific message, commit, and then relaunch the commit dialog on the folder, etc, etc, Time consuming and error prone! I just made a whole commit batch with a wrong message, and I can not edit the commit message.

Not a solution to your feature request, but you can enable editing of the commit message if you add a pre-revprop-change hook script. You do this at the SVN server by adding a script in the hooks folder of the repository (there are already a few templates that can be used as a boiler plate). For more information, see the SVN Book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.ref.reposhooks.pre-revprop-change

This would at least help you change the incorrect commit message. It would not help you to split the commit into several different commits.

Kind regards

Daniel Sahlberg