How can one format text in svn commit log messages? Using *text* does not make the text bold, it shows * in message when I use svn log.
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Eric Renouf
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Subversion itself considers the log message as plain text, so you cannot do it in such a way that any client will display your formatting.
The TortoiseSVN client does however display log message text between ‘*’s as bold (and ‘_’s as underlined and ‘^’s as italicised), as documented in the manual. But bear this in mind:
- This formatting is meaningless to Subversion itself;
svn logwill display plain text. - Tortoise appears to do this only when the characters immediately next to the markup on the inside are letters.
- Tortoise displays the markup characters, whether or not it honours them.
- The bolding is fairly faint in many fonts.
- I have the impression that the commit-dialogue does not always immediately apply the markup, e.g. when pasting text.
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You can not format commit-messages. Period
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In tortoisesvn one CAN style commit messages – MrTux May 25 '15 at 09:55
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http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-commit.html In this link it is written under **Commit Log Messages** headline. – वरुण May 25 '15 at 10:00
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@MrTux How can we style commit messages? – वरुण May 25 '15 at 10:07
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I used `*text*` but it did not make the text bold. – वरुण May 25 '15 at 10:18
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If I paste text copied from somewhere it between `*` marks it does not make them bold. But I write text in between `*` it works. – वरुण May 25 '15 at 10:26