On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:36:35 +0200
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:21:14AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > Michael Schmitt <schmitt@TI.Uni-Trier.DE> writes:
> >
> > > Deleting subdir1
> > > svn: Transaction is out of date
> > > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > > svn: out of date: `/project/subdir1' in txn `xp'
> > > svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> > > svn: '/home/TI3/schmitt/project/svn-commit.tmp'
> > >
> > > First of all, this message is absolutely confusing. Please, please
> > > change it to make it more suitable for dummy users like me!
> >
> > What would be less confusing?
> >
> > "Sorry, you attempted to commit '/project/subdir1', but failed,
> > because it is out-of-date."
> >
> > Is it the word "transaction" that is confusing?
> > Because otherwise, the message already says that
> >
> > 1) the commit failed
> > 2) /project/subdir1 was out-of-date
> [snip]
>
> Perhaps something like "/project/subdir1 was out-of-date. Try svn up
> /project/subdir1" would be slightly less confusing? It's not
> immediately obvious to a new user what "blah is out of date" means and
> what to do about it. e.g. "Why would it be out of date? I just
> committed it a moment ago!"
I had to look at the source to understand what 'out of date' means :).
Being in the same message with the word transaction I initially
thought some transaction started and never completed so it was labeled
'out of date' by the repo or BDB or whatever I imagined is in charge of
transactions and that I needed some repository repair in order to clean
those 'not up to date transactions'
I was relieved when I saw in the source I only had to svn up :)
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Received on Thu Jun 5 17:23:16 2003