Re: Worst Error Message?

On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Andy Canfield wrote:

> I just spent all day working on a bug. I could create a repository, and could
> do "svn checkout ..." but when I did "svn commit" I got this error message:
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Server sent unexpected return value (403 Forbidden)
> in response to MKACTIVITY request for
> '/svn/Mummy/!svn/act/991016fc-bbae-4269-a468-b8e3d9bce7b5'
>
> Late that night, it finally hit to me: I had read access to the repository,
> but not write access. My procedure for creating a repository did not grant
> write access to the creator.
>
> That is close to the worst error message I have ever seen.

then you've never seen a problem of type 2094:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL2blQ2PlU4

rday

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