Assuming you have a versioned file called 'iota', % cp iota iota2 % echo >> iota % svn ci iota (editor pops up) (shell out from editor) % cp iota2 iota % exit (back to editor) (enter commit message) (exit editor)
Jö Fahlke wrote on Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 22:34:53 +0100: > Hi! > > Is there any way to do a commit with and empty changeset, but non-empty commit > message? > > I made a typo in a commit message. Unfortunately the typo isn't just > cosmetic, since it is right in a revision number referencing another commit. > Even more unfortunately, changing the commit message after having commited > isn't really an option (it's not important enough to change history). > > My next best idea was to make another commit right after the faulty one, with > an empty changeset and a commit message explaining the previous error. But > svn silently ignores my attempts to this end. > > I'm using the commandline client from Debian: > svn, version 1.6.12 (r955767) > compiled May 31 2011, 19:23:20 > > Thanks, > Jö. > > -- > Jorrit (Jö) Fahlke, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, > Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, D-69120 Heidelberg > Tel: +49 6221 54 8890 Fax: +49 6221 54 8884 > > Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most. > -- Ozzy Osbourne
