Danny Park wrote:
>
.. which mostly
> works.. except most of my old working copies can't sync up anymore. They
> give the following error:
>
> Expected format '3' of repository; found format '5'
I believe this is caused when an old (pre 1.4) svn client tries to
access a repository created with 1.4. The repos format has been upgraded
to provide new compression / performance etc.
>
>
> What works: a working copy on the same server, which access the
> repository using a file:/// url. I could "svn up" and it didn't seem to
> care that the repository's format had changed.
Makes sense the server side components are 1.4.
>
> What doesn't: working copies on two windows machines (win2k and winxp),
> using tortoisesvn 1.4.0 (build 7501) which is based on subversion 1.4.0.
> They access the repository with an svn+ssh:// url (and I type my unix
> system password into plink each time I sync/commit). An update of the
> existing working copy gives the above error. Interestingly enough, when
> I try to check out a fresh copy, it also gives the above error.
Could there be a version mismatch of the tortoiseSVN?
What happens if you install and use the svn 1.4 commandline client (not
TortoiseSVN)? See:
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91
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Received on Wed Nov 1 19:55:18 2006