On Thu, 2011-01-27, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > Pssst... file the issue. I chose to file an "enhancement" issue about including the error number in the messages: <http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3790>.
- Julian > On 01/26/2011 01:24 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 17:35:43 +0000: > >> Two other suggestions for what we could do to improve the situation. > >> > >> * Make "svn" print a consistent error string for "does not exist in > >> revision R" errors, regardless of subcommand. At present, the error > >> message differs unnecessarily among subcommands. > >> > >> * Make "svn" include a unique identifier (such as the apr_err number) > >> in its error messages, upon request (by a new cmdline option?), in a > >> much briefer form than the maintainer-mode output. e.g. > >> > >> $ svn ls ^/abc > >> svn: E160013: URL 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/abc' > >> non-existent in that revision > >> > > > > +1, that's more convenient than looking up translated error messages > > (and line numbers) in *.po files. > > > >> > >> - Julian > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, 2011-01-26, Philip Martin wrote: > >>> "C. Michael Pilato" <cmpil...@collab.net> writes: > >>> > >>>> Would it be possible to, say, provide a mapping between the apr_err code > >>>> space and errorcodes? I'm not sure. > >>> > >>> Not a unique one. > >>> > >>>> I was thinking that the errorcode > >>>> space was limited to 32k distinct values, whereas the apr_err code space > >>>> is > >>>> much, much bigger. (Though, we don't use most of it.) > >>> > >>> Only 8 bits of the exit() value get back to the parent, so 255 error > >>> values. There are currently 271 distinct Subversion SVN_ERRDEFs, plus > >>> all the APR ones. > >> > >> > >> > >
