Poor error message on lack of commit authorization

[Julian Foad <ju...@btopenworld.com>]

I got the error message seen below when I tried to commit to the new SVN
Book repository before becoming a "member" of the project.

[[[
$ svn co https://svnbook.googlecode.com/svn/trunk wc

$ cd wc

$ # edit a file

$ svn st -u -q
M             3407   src/en/book/ch05-repository-admin.xml
Status against revision:   3407

Performing status on external item at 'src/ru/nb-bin'
Status against revision:   2339

$ svn ci -F ff
/home/julianfoad/src/subversion-trunk/subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:867: (apr_err=175002)
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
/home/julianfoad/src/subversion-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_neon/util.c:563: (apr_err=175002)
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden) in response to
MKACTIVITY request for '/svn/!
svn/act/d1cbbc0f-ee61-0410-b1a7-4b8ace951552'
]]]

Is that the normal way in which we report "Not authorized", or some
mis-configuration of the Google Code server? If the former, can we
change it to a more friendly and relevant message?

(My Subversion client was a recent trunk build of "svn", r35590:35595. I
had authenticated at checkout time and had allowed Subversion to store
my authentication details locally.)

- Julian

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