Use linefeed or carriage return in Subversion commit message from the command line
- by Scott
I am using Subversion 1.6.6 on Ubuntu 10.04. I would like to insert a carriage return, or linefeed, or newline into my commit message so that when reading the log, the comments are formatted appropriately. It works fine when I use the system editor, or specify a file for the commit comment, but what I really want is to be able to do something like the following:
svn ci -m "This is the first line\nThis is the second line"
and have the comment presented as:
This is the first line
This is the second line
My example does not work, it produces output:
This is the first line\nThis is the
second line
So, is there a way to do this? If so, how?
