[SVN-1254] Poor error messages

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: unknown

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Blair Zajac
• Created: 22/Apr/03 21:39
• Updated: 26/Nov/19 00:47
• Resolved: 26/Nov/19 00:47

Description

This is all with Svn 0.21.0.  Try this against a DAV repository.

svn co -N http://somerepos.com/repos test
cd test
svn mkdir proj proj/branches proj/tags proj/trunk
svn ci -m ''

cd ..
rm -fr test
svn co -N http://somerepos.com/repos test
cd test
svn mkdir proj proj/branches proj/tags proj/trunk
svn ci -m ''


Get this message which doesn't indicate what's going on:

Adding         proj
subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:628: (apr_err=175002)
svn: RA layer request failed
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/util.c:81: (apr_err=175002)
svn: MKCOL of /repos/test/!svn/wrk/xxxxxxxxxxxx/proj: 405 Method Not 
Allowed

Using a ra_local, you get this message, which is entirely understandable:

svnadmin create repos
svn co file://`pwd`/repos r1
cd r1
svn mkdir proj proj/branches proj/tags proj/trunk
svn ci -m ''
cd ..
svn co file://`pwd`/repos r2
rm -fr r2
svn co -N file://`pwd`/repos r2
cd r2
svn mkdir proj proj/branches proj/tags proj/trunk
svn ci -m ''

Adding         proj
subversion/libsvn_client/commit.c:628: (apr_err=160020)
svn: Item already exists in filesystem
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
subversion/libsvn_fs/tree.c:204: (apr_err=160020)
svn: file already exists: filesystem 
`/export/home1/blair/tmp/z/repos/db', transaction `2', path `proj'

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SVN-1654 many commands yield bad error messages if the file does not exist in the specified revision