Subversive: Change SVN commit message retroactively?

Question

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

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

As gouessej commented, for quick reference, the process for me was:

1. Team > Show History
2. Right click on an element in the list and select Set Commit Properties