Good point - I suppose I hadn't considered it like that. I tend to happily commit to my feature branch on SVN and then make sure that the log message is good wh

Good point - I suppose I hadn't considered it like that. I tend to happily commit to my feature branch on SVN and then make sure that the log message is good when I merge to trunk. Incidentally you can edit previous log messages in SVN, it's just that most servers have it disabled, for traceability.