On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Jö Fahlke <jor...@jorrit.de> wrote: > Am Tue, 8. Nov 2011, 09:05:39 +0000 schrieb Giulio Troccoli: >> I really don't understand why you can't use >> >> svn pe svn:log <filename> >> >> This doesn't change history, the commit you did doesn't change. >> You're only correcting a mistake in the message. > > * Because the server does not allow it. > > * Because it creates problems for people who already updated to the faulty > commit (e.g. with git-svn).
You didn't mention git-svn. While it's a useful tool, I've gone a few rounds with such users when they were using a CVS->Subversion planning a migration, and a Subverson->git for their own work, and they threw a wobbly when I re-arranged things in the old CVS repository to make the long-term move cleaner. (Re-arranged material to avoid name conflicts and get material *out* of the migration tree that didn't need to be there.) Boy, did they throw a fit. Long term synchronization via the git-svn toolkit is fragile and should *not* be relied as canonical historical information.
