Change Subversion Commit Messages Post Commit

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Friday, May 12. 2006

Posted by Latcarf in SCM

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Change Subversion Commit Messages Post Commit

Today I had a developer who wanted to change his commit message after he'd already made the commit to the Subversion repository. Initially, I told him it wasn't possible, but then I decided I should check if my assertion was correct. It wasn't...

To change/edit a Subversion commit message after the commit, do the following on the Subversion server:

$ svnadmin setlog /path/to/repository \
> -r 10662 --bypass-hooks message_file.txt ¬

The --bypass-hooks argument is necessary because you are editing a non-versioned property of the revision. As such, you lose the history of the original commit message so Subversion requires the pre-revprop-change hook to be enabled. Passing --bypass-hooks bypasses this requirement and allows the change.

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