[SVN-1691] cancel before doing something, not afterwards

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 07/Jan/04 11:44
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:39
• Resolved: 10/Mar/09 15:22

Description

Patch by Julian Foad: http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-
12/0720.shtml

Call the cancellation function before doing something, not afterwards, because 
it is useful to be able to cancel an operation before it starts but it is not 
meaningful to "cancel" after it has finished.

http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-12/0720.shtml

Original issue reported by sander