On 4/13/06, Jason Kealey <jkealey@shade.ca> wrote:
> Thank you both for your input. Doing more research, I discovered it was my
> mistake, as I had tried all of these before, but with an error in my URL. I
> had written a half a dozen test cases, all with the same slip-up in the
> directory structure.
>
> To clear things up, it doesn't seem that the -r argument is required when
> using a URL; hence the documentation is correct.
>
> However, when I re-ran my (erroneous) test cases, I got the following
> output:
>
> svn propget svn:mime-type svn://yourserver/repo/any/path_at_1422
> svn: Unknown node kind for 'svn://yourserver/repo/any/path'
>
> I personally thought this cryptic error message meant the syntax wasn't well
> understood and moved on to another attempt. Could this error message be made
> clearer to prevent bumbling fools like myself from bothering you?
>
> Here are some examples of error messages that are much clearer:
> svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for 'dsvn://yourserver/repo/any/path'
> svn: Unknown hostname 'yourserver-invalid'
> svn: No repository found in 'svn://yourserver/typo/any/path'
>
> To an end user, the latter three messages make sense, but the first one does
> not.
Can you give a reproduction recipie that produces that error message
(ideally a set of commands that creates a new repository, gets it into
the appropriate state, and then runs the command that shows the
problem). With that in hand it would be pretty simple to improve the
error message.
-garrett
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Received on Fri Apr 14 20:18:17 2006