On 7/30/11 9:15 AM, 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.
Ummm, if it hurts, don't do it.
That is close to the worst error message I have ever seen.
You haven't been doing complicated things with a computer long, I take it. There
are plenty of worse messages on the order of "can't happen'.
'403 forbidden' makes reasonable sense for a client-side message to someone who
shouldn't know internal details anyway. Is something better in the apache error
log where the sysadmin who set it up wrong should be looking?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
