Daniel Shahaf wrote:

> Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 17:36:09 +0000:
>>  Prabhu Gnana Sundar <prabh...@collab.net> wrote:
>>  > +    revstr = "";
>>  > +  svn_handle_error2(notify->err, stderr, FALSE /* non-fatal */,
>>  > +                    apr_psprintf(scratch_pool, "svnadmin: %s", revstr));
>>  > +  return;
>> 
>>  In what cases will the revision number be invalid?  This prints a 
>> half-empty message in those cases; what did you intend?
> 
> The code will print
>     svnadmin: E160004: Corrupt filesystem
> or
>     svnadmin: Error verifying revision 42: E160004: Corrupt filesystem

> respectively as the revision number is SVN_INVALID_REVNUM or 42.  So
> there is no "half-empty" message here.

Oh, I see: that psprintf is the 'prefix' argument of handle_error2.  I 
misunderstood.

> But the code moves the E160004 away from its current location
> immediately after the "svnadmin:" prefix.  I am not sure I like that; 
> is there a good reason not to have the message be of the form
>     svnadmin: E160004: %s
> in the interest of parseability?

I agree that would be better: the prefix should remain just "svnadmin: " and 
the error message should be adjusted instead.

- Julian

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