Re: Subversion is brittle in an annoying way

A failed WebDAV request is certainly noticable by svn, right? Since
it seemed that the web server worked but the module didn't couldn't
the error be more like "DAV request failed, is mod_dav_svn enabled?"

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:57:29 +0100, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:33, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/gpsd/trunk/ svn: PROPFIND request
> > failed on '/'
> > svn: PROPFIND of '/': 200 OK (http://svn.berlios.de)
>
> This is the second of these that I've seen reported recently. The problem is
> that subversion is quite reasonably returning the 'error' that was returned
> from the other end. In this case an obscure success message. It seems that
> there should be a coverall message saying "Comminication failed with remote
> server" or something.
>
> -apw
>
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