Re: Subversion FAQ broken link

On 7/23/14 4:11 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
> Lior <hesedl_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> The FAQ section: http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#server-requirements
>> contains a broken link:
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=users&by=thread&from=330941
>
> Thank you for reporting this. We'd like to fix it.
>
> Does anyone know how we can find the thread it used to point to? (I recall that old links to individual messages still work, just links to threads broke, when the Tigris software changed a few years ago.)

I did some digging and I believe that it linked to this thread:
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=554817

This 2008 thread links to that thread and says there isn't much there but a
question and two responses:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-10/0391.shtml

The patch to add the FAQ and link was submitted here:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-07/0049.shtml

The individual that submitted the patch started a similar thread here (but got
no responses) before the linked one:
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=542737

The thread I suspect it is matches both the number of replies as mentioned in
the 2008 message, seems to match up with the information that is put in the
FAQ, and has the correct timeframe.

All that said having looked at the thread I'm inclined to just remove the link.
 9 year old info isn't all that useful now and the truly useful information was
added to the FAQ.
Received on 2014-07-23 17:39:41 CEST