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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za> on 2004/01/23 15:50:50 UTC

Re: [Issue 1254] Poor error message from ra_dav

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:41:33PM -0000, kfogel@tigris.org wrote:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1254
> 
[snip]
>    $ svn commit -m "Commiting as read-only user."
[snip]
>    Sending        www/index.html
>    [...]
>    svn: RA layer request failed
>    svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>    svn: CHECKOUT of /svn/svntest/!svn/ver/1/trunk/www/index.html: \
>         could not connect to server (http://blah.blah.blah/)
> 
> To say there was a "CHECKOUT" failure during commit is certainly
> counterintuitive :-).  Of course, it's referring to the DAV "CHECKOUT"
> operation, but most users won't know that.
[snip]

The "could not connect to server" is also wrong.  Presumably svn could
connect to the server, but the server returned an error instead of what
svn was expecting.

-- 
Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>

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Re: [Issue 1254] Poor error message from ra_dav

Posted by kf...@collab.net.
Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za> writes:
> The "could not connect to server" is also wrong.  Presumably svn could
> connect to the server, but the server returned an error instead of what
> svn was expecting.

I'm not sure that error is always present, or is an artifact of the
testing mechanism, but I'll mention this in the issue.  Thanks!


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