Bug#374888: subversion: after a failed commit, it would be nice to start with the old log message

[Adam Borowski]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.3.2-3
Severity: wishlist

If a commit fails for any reason, the log message is saved as
svn-commit{,.2,.3,...}.tmp, yet it is never reused.

The obvious thing would be to start the editor with the old message
if run in the interactive mode.  After all, it's a lot faster to delete
an inappropiate message rather than read and copy it by hand.

Of course, this would require purging old aborted messages after a
successful commit, but this is not a problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  libapr0                       2.0.55-4   the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libsvn0                       1.3.2-3    shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  patch                         2.5.9-4    Apply a diff file to an original

subversion recommends no packages.

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