GitHub user robertkowalski opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/189
Fix error message in database permissions
Show the message from the server instead of the whole JSON as text
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This closes #189
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commit 7dba422367222b2f75e20e55ab2b4b09df7167b2
Author: Robert Kowalski <[email protected]>
Date: 2014-03-19T19:30:58Z
Fix error message in database permissions
Show the message from the server instead of the whole JSON as text
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