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Re: Depth support and backwards compatibility

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2007-08-22 05:03:34 CEST

"Garrett Rooney" <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:
> I was playing around with a trunk build while testing mod_dontdothat,
> and noticed that I was getting errors like this when trying to do a
> regular recursive checkout with an older (1.4.2) client:
>
> $ svn co http://localhost:8080/svn/repos/trunk foo
> svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/repos/!svn/vcc/default'
> svn: Unsupported report depth 'unknown'
>
> Is this a known problem? It looks like the error is coming from
> reporter.c in the write_path_info function, and the check for unknown
> was added in r24453 and modified in r24968, both of which seem to be
> related to adding backwards compatibility support. I'm absolutely out
> of my depth on this stuff, as I've only been skimming the mailing list
> discussions about it for some time, but I must admit I was quite
> surprised to see my 1.4.2 client error out like that...

If old clients are erroring, that's a bug! I'll take a look, thanks
for the report.

-Karl

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