svn commit and branches

[Brian Bird <Br...@securetrading.com>]

When committing to a branch in subversion (without the -m switch) svn pre-fills the editor with the filenames to be committed under a line "-This line, and those below, will be ignored-".

Is it possible for the current branch to be shown here as well? I often have to work on multiple branches and on occasion I have committed to the wrong branch and only realised later. I would like to be warned about the branch I'm on so I can switch to another one before committing if necessary. I know CVS used to show this information when committing so I'm hoping there's a simple option to enable this in svn?

Thanks,

Brian

Re: svn commit and branches

[Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>]

Brian Bird wrote on Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 13:45:30 +0100:
> When committing to a branch in subversion (without the -m switch) svn
> pre-fills the editor with the filenames to be committed under a line
> "-This line, and those below, will be ignored-".
> 
> Is it possible for the current branch to be shown here as well?
> I often have to work on multiple branches and on occasion I have
> committed to the wrong branch and only realised later. I would like to
> be warned about the branch I'm on so I can switch to another one
> before committing if necessary. I know CVS used to show this
> information when committing so I'm hoping there's a simple option to
> enable this in svn?
> 

There isn't.  But you could teach your editor to show that information
if you need it (just run 'svn info').

> Thanks,
> 
> Brian