Subversive: Change SVN commit message retroactively?

eclipse svn subversive
FoxyBOA picture FoxyBOA · Dec 24, 2011 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

Actually I need to modify SVN commit message. A lot of related staff exists how to do it (e.g. Change SVN commit message retroactively?).

My question is, could I do it from Eclipse's subversive plugin?

Answer

mliebelt picture mliebelt · Dec 24, 2011

It is not easy to find, but possible. This recipe is working for Eclipse Indigo (3.6) and Subversive 0.7.9I20110321-1700. Do the following steps:

  1. Open for an item where you want to change a log message the history: Team > Show History. This opens a new view named History.
  2. In that view, you see the log messages of the selected item. Select one of the messages and choose from the context menu Show revision properties.
  3. Select svn:log and then from the context menu Edit.... This opens a new dialog where you can change the log message (if allowed on the server).

The best answer I found at Stackoverflow to the base question was this one that states clearly that it is not the default behavior of a Subversion server to allow that, so normally, it won't be possible without the help of an administrator.

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