Comment 23 for bug 1875642

I largely agree with Sudip's analysis that, while subversion is certainly old and probably isn't a good choice for *new* projects, there're still plenty of installations out there and it's not good if users are upgrading and finding their installation breaks. Hence, it's worth fixing. Unfortunately I don't think Steve's point about the changelog being comprehensible to ordinary users is addressed. Previously the message was:

* Apply upstream patch to close root_baton

Now the message is:

* SVN will not commit changes for a http-URL if the root_baton is still open.
  Apply upstream patch to close root_baton properly

But in both cases I'm left with the question ... "what's a baton?!" (and apparently I'm not the first to ask this about SVN's code [1]). I'd suggest maybe changing this to something like:

* SVN fails to commit changes to http-URLs due to unclosed handle

Maybe "handles" is still a bit opaquely coder-speak, but it's a rather more common term than "batons" and seems to be vaguely analogous to batons in SVN (at least from my reading of [1])?

[1]: https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2002-07/0396.shtml