[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: [PATCH] Implement svnadmin verify --force

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:59:43 +0100

On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 02:21:48PM +0530, Prabhu Gnana Sundar wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 11:31 PM, Julian Foad wrote:
> >Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >
> >>Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 17:36:09 +0000:
> >>> Prabhu Gnana Sundar<prabhugs_at_collab.net> wrote:
> >>> > + revstr = "";
> >>> > + svn_handle_error2(notify->err, stderr, FALSE /* non-fatal */,
> >>> > + apr_psprintf(scratch_pool, "svnadmin: %s", revstr));
> >>> > + return;
> >>>
> >>> In what cases will the revision number be invalid? This prints a
> >>>half-empty message in those cases; what did you intend?
> >>The code will print
> >> svnadmin: E160004: Corrupt filesystem
> >>or
> >> svnadmin: Error verifying revision 42: E160004: Corrupt filesystem
> >>respectively as the revision number is SVN_INVALID_REVNUM or 42. So
> >>there is no "half-empty" message here.
> >Oh, I see: that psprintf is the 'prefix' argument of handle_error2. I misunderstood.
> >
> >>But the code moves the E160004 away from its current location
> >>immediately after the "svnadmin:" prefix. I am not sure I like that;
> >>is there a good reason not to have the message be of the form
> >> svnadmin: E160004: %s
> >>in the interest of parseability?
> >I agree that would be better: the prefix should remain just "svnadmin: " and the error message should be adjusted instead.
> >
> >- Julian
>
> Does this look fine ? I personally feel this is easily readable.
>
>
> * Verified revision 0.
> * Verified revision 1.
> * Verified revision 2.
> Error verifying revision 3. svnadmin: E160004: Missing node-id in node-rev at r3 (offset 787)
> Error verifying revision 4. svnadmin: E140001: zlib (uncompress): corrupt data: Decompression of svndiff data failed
> * Verified revision 5.

The lines should start with "svnamdin: ".

I believe what Julian was suggesting is to stop doing the apr_psprintf()
dance I suggested, and make libsvn_repos return a better error message
instead which includes the revision number. Is that right, Julian?
Received on 2012-11-01 12:00:31 CET

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Dev mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.