I’m a big fan of tortoisesvn, a Windows shell extension for Subversion. However, I encountered a really annoying issue with it today that should have been easily addressed.

In the Repository Browser, when connecting to the SVN server it asks for a URL. By reflex I used “http:…” rather than “svn:…”. This resulted in the following error message:

“Server sent unexpected return value (501 Method PROPFIND is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API ) in response to PROPFIND request”

Um… guys? How about checking that the user typed “svn:”? Or better yet, how about not making us remember to type “svn:”, if that’s the only protocol that works?
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Sheeesh. It’s called USABILITY, people. Look it up.

BTW, googling for “TortoiseSVN PROPFIND error” led me to a bunch support archives with this same question but no useful answers. I’m willing to bet this post gets a fair number of hits. 🙂