Subversion recommened commit messages to be single line, without breaks. The argument was that it's good for scripting, the one record = one line approach usual

Subversion recommened commit messages to be single line, without breaks. The argument was that it's good for scripting, the one record = one line approach usual for unix scripts. I have this habit since then and format all my git commits that way, despite the multi-line tradition in git. Was Subversion wrong?