Change SVN commit message retroactively?

Question

I would like to re-write a big number of SVN commit messages to a different structure, e.g. prefix a category. From:

\"foo\" now accepts \"bar\" format for con

Answer 1

Just came accross this post with the exact problem, usingTortoise SVN for client and VisualSVN on a Windows server.

If you happen to have an "a DAV request failed" error message, give a look at Andrew Aylett's answer and go edit "pre-revprop-change.tmpl" in your repository hooks subdirectory.

Once this is done hitting "edit log message" in the contextual menu should finally work!