RE: [PATCH] Provide meaningful message when svn update is run against an out of date mirror.

>I'm not fond at all of the idea of having code that is completely ignorant
>of the fact that a proxy is or isn't in place (like mod_dav_svn's update
>logic) generating errors that refer to mirrors.

I agree with you may be it can refer for the existence of the SVNMasterURI directive and and trigger this error?

What do you think?

>A more appropriate approach would be for the mirror.c code (which is the
>only code that really knows that some proxying is going on) to detect the
>generic error and replace it with a more specific one in the returned
>stream. That's probably quite a bit more work to achieve, but I believe it
>is far more correct that what you are proposing.

IIUC 'svn update' does not exercise the mirror code!

With regards
Kamesh Jayachandran

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Received on 2009-10-09 20:48:41 CEST