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contents of FILE.</p><p>This is similar to using <span class="command"><strong>svn propset
--revprop</strong></span> to set the <code class="literal">svn:log</code> property
on a revision, except that you can also use the option
<code class="option">--bypass-hooks</code> to avoid running any pre- or
post-commit hooks, which is useful if the modification of
revision properties has not been enabled in the pre-revprop-change
hook.</p><div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Warning</h3><p>Revision properties are not under version control,
so this command will permanently overwrite the previous
log message.</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id423807"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--revision (-r) REV
--bypass-hooks
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id423819"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Set the log message for revision 19 to the contents of
the file <code class="filename">msg</code>:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svnadmin setlog /var/svn/repos/ -r 19 msg
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