On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 09:15:18PM +0700, 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.
Yeah, that's one is bad. I gave a talk about this topic on svnday in May this year: http://www.elegosoft.com/files/svn-day-berlin-2011_sperling_subversion-error-messages-demystified.pdf
