svn and Google Code sometimes bork on my commits, saying:
Transmitting file data …..svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Commit failed unexpectedly — please try again later
The first line tells me that the transmission failed and that details follow. The second line tells me that the commit failed unexpectedly, which is essentially what the first line told me. Where are the details? Why did it fail? What was being attempted that failed? Why is the failure “unexpected”? Are there “expected” failures?
Here’s a nice error from the drizzle build process:
configure: error: Couldn’t find uuid/uuid.h. On Debian this can be found in uuid-dev. On Redhat this can be found in e2fsprogs-devel.
When a program fails I want details and I don’t need to be told “try again.” Of course I’m going to try again. In fact, I’m not going to stop trying until it succeeds.
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