Re: Strange error messages in svnadmin lsdblogs

--On Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:20 AM -0500 cmpilato@collab.net wrote:

> It's an grammatical thing, I think. 'svnadmin lsdblogs' implies that
> you want to see some DB logs. I mean, there they are, right there in
> you db/ subdir, you can see them, and yet this function doesn't list
> them?!

No. I think this function is essentially giving our users a loaded gun with
the safety off. I *hate* the current semantics of lsdblogs. The name sucks
as well as the switch in meanings from archive to now show all of the logs.

> Oooooh. I forgot to run 'svnadmin lsdblogs --i-really-mean-it-this-time'.
> How silly of me!

If that's really the function of lsdblogs, I don't think it has any value -
just use ls instead. The *only* value that Subversion can offer is providing
the list of BDB logs that can be safely deleted.

Listing all of the log files isn't helpful to anyone. And, I believe it is
more harmful than anything else. I think lsdblogs should be removed and go
back to archive. Add a flag to archive that says, 'show me all logs' - who
knows why anyone would need that, but whatever. The change was ill-conceived
to begin with. -- justin

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Received on Tue Aug 19 17:47:21 2003