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Re: wacky/disturbing error message

From: John Peacock <jpeacock_at_rowman.com>
Date: 2004-04-13 02:44:21 CEST

Glenn Maynard wrote:
> Fixing poor error messages doesn't seem to be a priority. I pointed out
> one (Message-ID: <20040326062942.GD13484@zewt.org>) that took me an
> hour or so to figure out, and didn't get any response ...
>

You do know that a Message-ID is not useful _in any way_ towards tracking that
message in the list archives, don't you? The attitude is also suprisingly
unhelpful.

I'm guessing you mean this:

        http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svnusers/archive-2004-03/1928.shtml

which I have to say /I/ find pretty clear. The appropriate response to the
first error should have been

        svn ls https://zewt.org/svn/vendor

to see that you had forgotten to commit foo. The first error message correctly
states the obvious (that the destination path doesn't exist).

John

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