Hi,
I'm not sure whether TSVN mailing list would be more appropriate for the
actual use-case-related part of the question. Hence I'm trying to keep
it more SVN-specific:
Is there a way in SVN to perform some kind of bulk-changes or
replace-operation on all committed log-messages?
What I have in mind is replacing all occurrances in all log messages of
the style \#(\d+) with XT\-($1) where $1 is the captured number in the
previous string and the \d would represent a number-value.
In other words:
"Foo #2354."
Should become:
"Foo XT-2354."
The only idea I get here is to perform a dump/load-cycle and before the
load, perform a regexp-replacement on the dump-file.
Anybody has a better solution?
Underlying usecase (maybe someone else comes up with a better solution
for the actual issue):
We make use of TSVN's bugtraq-properties (see:
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-bugtracker.html).
Up to now we used the syntax: "#XXXX" which then corresponded to issue
number XXXX and refrenced a link to: http://foo.com/bar.php?query=XT-XXXX.
XT is a unique-ID in the bugtracker.
Now we moved to use two separate projects in the bugtracker, both
relying on the same code base. The assigned unique IDs are XT- and XR-.
All existing IDs used XT-, while all new ones will use the XR-. The
expectation for commits in the future are that these will only reference
XR-prefixes.
In a perfect world, I'd like developers to offer two ways to write their
ID-references:
- use the #XXXX-syntax, which will then default to XR-XXXX
- use either XT-XXXX or XR-XXXX syntaxes, if they want to explicitly
reference either an issue for XT or XR.
All existing syntaxes of #XXXX should of course still use the
XT-XXXX-references.
My problem is that the bugtraq-properties only support a single regexp
to extract the actual relevant bug-message and then from that extract
the bugID which is then used to create the link to the bugtracker.
So what I can do is:
- enable the new XT-/XR-syntax OR (problem: the #-syntax won't work at all)
- change the #-syntax and make it refer the XR-issues (problem:
XT-/XR-syntax is not possible, old #-issues will incorrectly reference
the XR-issues (even though these were created for the XT-issues)
- keep the #-syntax refere to the XT-issues (problem: XR-issues cannot
be referenced)
- allow the #, XT- and XR-syntax, pass it on to some wrapper CGI-script
(aka: http://foo.com/customwrapper.cgi?query=#XXX|XT-XXX|XR-XXX) and let
that CGI-script resolve the actual reference. (problem: hard to set-up
in our environment, does result in inconsistent issue-naming in TSVN,
since in one case the issue is #XXXX while in the other case issues are
XT-XXXX or XR-XXXX).
Any idea/suggestions on the best practice to approach this problem?
Regards,
Stefan
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