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Re: "Locked" messages useless

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2005-10-16 20:59:25 CEST

On Sunday 16 October 2005 12:48, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 16:43 +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
> > > svn: Path '/trunk/sprints/Sprints.mdb' is already locked by user 'iar'
> > > in filesystem 'C:/Daten/svnroot/myrepo/db'
> >
> > When using http:// the repository location will get stripped from the
> > error message as a security measure. Perhaps svnserve should be doing
> > the same?
>
> I'd say that this error message should not be using the filesystem
> location in the first place.
>
> Also, http does not uniformly strip repository locations. Run "svn log
> -r 80000" in your svn working directory to find out that svn.collab.net
> puts the Subversion repository at /usr/www/repositories/svn/db.

I thought a while back we had decided that the location of the repository on
the filesystem was sensitive, and shouldn't be divulged in anything except
Apache's access/error logs. IIRC, several people went through and removed
the repository path from a bunch of error messages in mod_dav_svn.

-John

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