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Re: Document return codes of 'svn ls'

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:47:02 +0200

C. Michael Pilato wrote on Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 21:56:40 -0500:
> Pssst... file the issue.
>

Committed revision 1064458.

% $svn info nonexistent
svn: warning: W155010: The node '/home/daniel/src/svn/t1/nonexistent' was not found.

subversion/svn/info-cmd.c:591: (apr_err=200000)
svn: E200000: A problem occurred; see other errors for details
zsh: exit 1 $svn info nonexistent

Thanks,

Daniel

> On 01/26/2011 01:24 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 17:35:43 +0000:
> >> Two other suggestions for what we could do to improve the situation.
> >>
> >> * Make "svn" print a consistent error string for "does not exist in
> >> revision R" errors, regardless of subcommand. At present, the error
> >> message differs unnecessarily among subcommands.
> >>
> >> * Make "svn" include a unique identifier (such as the apr_err number)
> >> in its error messages, upon request (by a new cmdline option?), in a
> >> much briefer form than the maintainer-mode output. e.g.
> >>
> >> $ svn ls ^/abc
> >> svn: E160013: URL 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/abc'
> >> non-existent in that revision
> >>
> >
> > +1, that's more convenient than looking up translated error messages
> > (and line numbers) in *.po files.
> >
> >>
> >> - Julian
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2011-01-26, Philip Martin wrote:
> >>> "C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato_at_collab.net> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Would it be possible to, say, provide a mapping between the apr_err code
> >>>> space and errorcodes? I'm not sure.
> >>>
> >>> Not a unique one.
> >>>
> >>>> I was thinking that the errorcode
> >>>> space was limited to 32k distinct values, whereas the apr_err code space is
> >>>> much, much bigger. (Though, we don't use most of it.)
> >>>
> >>> Only 8 bits of the exit() value get back to the parent, so 255 error
> >>> values. There are currently 271 distinct Subversion SVN_ERRDEFs, plus
> >>> all the APR ones.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
Received on 2011-01-28 05:51:29 CET

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