Pre-fill SVN commit message with guideline

Question

I would like to show guidelines to commiter independently of the subversion client used.
Do you know how to do that?

Answer 1

If I'm understanding you right, you want clients that prompt the user for a commit message to prefill the text area/file with a custom message. If so, subversion doesn't support that through any kind of repository configuration

Answer 2

I don't think what you're asking is possible. Suppose I do

svn ci somefile -m "my commit message"

from the command line. You could certainly install a hook on your SVN server to detect and reject commits with messages that don't conform to your standard, but actually pre-filling the commit message for arbitrary clients won't work, because the commit message can be supplied before the client ever contacts the server.