Question

I’ve tried typing in svn commit and it will bring up a screen with the list of files being added/changed/etc. as well as a place to enter in a message, but pressing enter will add a newline to the message, not initiate the commit.

Is there a hotkey or some key combination to initiate the commit (it looks like there’s some sort of emacs-ish like console at the bottom)? This is on a linux system.

Answer 1

It will open your default editor; if you quit the editor, no log message will be saved; thus, the key combination to use depends on your editor. For Emacs, the sequence is Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C. If you want to commit a multi-line log message from a file, there is a -F option to svn commit to do that.