Re: Subversion error messages

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:19:50AM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Even for the simplest case of a single-level error, the two messages are
> generally redundant. For instance:
>
> svn: Item is out of date
> svn: Item 'foo.c' is out of date.

Not a bad approach if you're driving a GUI; the first error message
could be used for the title of the error dialog, and the remainder for
the content.

I confess to pretty profound ignorance on the subject of SVN's error
handling and reporting, but I'd have the library level report both and
have the command-line client suppress the first one.

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