Re: More user-friendly error messages would be nice

Karl Fogel wrote:
> Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn_at_cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>> Feature suggestion: more user-friendly error messages
>
> Oh, we are definitely on board with that already...
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1254
>
> ...which, as you can see from its last comment, split into individual
> issues for specific error messages. Not that we need an issue for every
> message; we just clean them up when we can.
>
> Your suggested solution for this particular error would take some work
> (since the client currently doesn't know the "other" user who committed
> in the meantime).

The out of dateness error is generated on the server side, so it shouldn't be
too hard to include the extra information. We should also have different error
messages for each type of out of dateness. Something like:

User 'bar' has also changed file 'foo' in revision 4.
File 'foo' was already deleted by user 'bar' in revision 4.
File 'foo' was already added by user 'bar' in revision 4.
etc.

I don't have time to take a look at this now, but I think it's low hanging fruit.

-- 
Vlad
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