Aw: a custom error message

Hi,

> I don't suppose this would be possible without hacking the
> code, right?
> Reason I'm asking is simplicity and clearness in the message.
> eg. is when an attempt to lock fails for file is already
> locked by other user
> why bother users with the path to file on a remote resource?
> they usually only get confuse reading too many details
>
> there is probably more cases where it would be great to have
> some ways to configure these error messages

Write a pre-lock hook...
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.reposhooks.pre-lock.html

You will see that the default pre-lock.tmpl created with new repositories will actually do exactly what you want. Shortened...

#!/bin/sh
REPOS="$1"
PATH="$2"
USER="$3"

LOCK_OWNER=`svnlook lock "$REPOS" "$PATH" | \
            grep '^Owner: ' | sed 's/Owner: //'`
if [ "$LOCK_OWNER" = "" ]; then
  exit 0
fi
if [ "$LOCK_OWNER" = "$USER" ]; then
  exit 0
fi
echo "Error: $PATH already locked by ${LOCK_OWNER}." 1>&2
exit 1
Received on 2014-08-12 12:39:27 CEST