I happen to agree that the commit messages suck, but the right thing to do is have a look at the script and suggest a patch on the infrastructure mailing list. I would do it myself, but have a paper to write first. I also think that placement of the Log text after the long list of files is obviously broken, and the commit template does not include prefixes for
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which are really really important.
I don't think that this discussion belongs on every mailing list that uses subversion -- move it to infrastructure.
....Roy