Details
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New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Trivial
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Resolution: Invalid
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1.9.0
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None
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None
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Any supported configuration of subversion.
Description
There are times when new information about a commit is discovered after the fact. Trivial cases of this are empty commit messages or forgotten line items on a commit. However at times it may be discovered that a certain change had an unintended side effect, or that the change has other features that are worth documenting.
One current solutions to this problem are to use a third party tool to allow discussion which has the downside that when the repository is moved the useful documentation is lost/disconnected, and the comment thread is not default viewable when logs are queried from the repository.
A second option is to allow log messages to be edited after the fact which has the consequence that historical commits can no longer be considered immutable, as the log messages can be erased or changed to have a different meaning.
What is suggested would be to allow a comment thread to be attached to the log such that developers could have a conversation about a particular commit without altering the original log message.