Was trying to look at a commit that was in another part of the ASF repo today. Wanted to see the log and the diff. So hey I just do the following in my command line (trunk SVN in this case) and I get:
[[[ $ svn-trunk log -c r1464241 --diff http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1464241 | trawick | 2013-04-03 17:22:52 -0700 (Wed, 03 Apr 2013) | 8 lines mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new dav_join_error() function. PR: 54145 Submitted by: Ben Reser <ben reser.org> Reviewed by: trawick ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/svn/log-cmd.c:868: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_client/log.c:630: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/log.c:601: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:819: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:776: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:2093: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:2074: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:2556: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:2464: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/xml.c:771: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/log.c:306: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/svn/log-cmd.c:469: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/svn/log-cmd.c:143: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_client/diff.c:2071: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_client/diff.c:1785: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/update.c:2888: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:2093: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:2074: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:1694: (apr_err=175009) ../../share/wcs/svn-trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c:1402: (apr_err=175009) svn: E175009: XML parsing failed: (403 Forbidden) ]]] With a release build of 1.7 I end up with: [[[ $ svn log -c r1464241 --diff http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1464241 | trawick | 2013-04-03 17:22:52 -0700 (Wed, 03 Apr 2013) | 8 lines mod_dav: Improve error handling in dav_method_put(), add new dav_join_error() function. PR: 54145 Submitted by: Ben Reser <ben reser.org> Reviewed by: trawick svn: E175013: Access to '/repos/asf/!svn/me' forbidden ]]] The 1.8 error message to be frank, stinks. XML parsing failed tells the user nothing. The 1.7 error messages seems a little better, but even that I'm not sure about. I don't have time at the moment to dig into why but I figured I'd throw this up here so will at least remember to look into it if someone else doesn't.
