Maximum length for SVN comment

Question

Is there a limit on maximum length for a comment that we can have for SVN?

I have a script that generates a comment before committing the file at root level, it has all file names in its comment before committing, I am wondering if there is any limit on number of characters on comment for SVN.That is because if I am committing large number of files, then all file names would appear in comment so was wondering how long the comment can be..

Answer 1

You have to differentiate between the svn ci -m message you give as a command line argument and the svn ci -F or svn ci --file version that allows you to specify the commit message in a file.

The command line variant is restricted by the shell you use; my test script stopped with a comment of little more than 131.000 chars. With the -F filename version I could commit dozens of megabytes.