Re: Unhelpful error message when SVN URL is incorrect.

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:51:26AM +0100, Seb Baz wrote:
> However, if I do
>
> svn co http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/build/win32/
>
> (which is valid) followed by
>
> svn switch http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/build/win32/ win32
>
> The response is:
>
> svn: REPORT of '/repos/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (http://svn.collab.net)
>
> It's not exactly obvious that it really is an error (200 OK looks OK)
> and the message says nothing about what went wrong (assuming that
> something did go wrong).

> I've searched the Bug database and cannot find anything directly relevant.
> Is this a new bug that needs to be reported?

There are many rather unhelpful error messages in Subversion.
There is an issue which tried to track the whole lot, but that was
not practical because the issue would never close :)

So yes, please file a separate issue.

Thanks,
Stefan
Received on 2009-05-30 12:37:47 CEST