SVN plugin problems

[Andras Mantia]

Hi,

 As KDE is heading towards SVN, I think we need a good GUI to perform 
SVN operations.
 KDevelop's CVS and SVN (maybe also other) plugins have a common 
problem, namely that they don't remember the commit log. So if 
something goes wrong and you need to repeat the commit, you have to 
type again. This is one of the reasons why I don't use the integrated 
CVS plugin of KDevelop as it happens here many times that the 
connection goes down (or isn't completely up when I press OK) during 
the commit and if you have typed a fairly long text, well, it's not 
fun. Cervisia doesn't have this problem. ;-) 
 Now my problems with the SVN support after some minutes of working:
- the error messages are rather cryptic ones. As a new svn user, I don't 
understand much out of it.
- there is some problem that is mostly visible if you don't have the 
kio_svn installed. The error box will be brought up many times (the 
same number of times as how many SVN operations were performed in the 
current session). Without looking at the code, but having similar 
problems with the cvsservice and other cases, this indicates that a 
signal is connected (every time you start an SVN operation), but not 
disconnected unless you close the project (well, the plugin is 
destroyed then...) You can also see that X number of progress dialogs 
appear on the screen.
- I get the "Working copy is locked' error dialog, but it still 
committed my changes. What is this error about?
- If I'm not online and try an update I also get after that another 
error dialog: "PROPFIND request failed on ....". I have no idea what 
this can mean. Of course I get these dialogs now X times (see the above 
issue).
- I cannot reproduce now as SVN doesn't ask for the password anymore, 
but when it did and I entered the wrong password, I got an error dialog 
which said something like "Critical error: ." Yes, the string 
indicating the actual error was missing.

As I see there are several missing features, mostly about branching.

Andras

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