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Re: Do we need SVN client 1.4.3 to work on repository created with SVN1.4.3 ??

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-03-30 14:27:55 CEST

On 3/30/07, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com> wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2007 08:50, Swati Kulkarni wrote:
> > I have SVN1.3.0 and am working on repository of SVN 1.4.3..
> >
> > I could checkout, commit...
> >
> > when I tried "svn log" it gives me an error like too old svn client....
> >
> > Here is the scenario.....
> >
> >
> > C:\>svn log "s:\latest_ver\New Text Document.txt"
> > svn: This client is too old to work with working copy 'S:\latest_ver';
> ^^^^^^
> > please get a newer Subversion client
> ^^^^^^
>
> Please see the release notes for 1.4, they changes so things in the working
> copy format and newer working copies cease to work with older clients.
>
> However: this has nothing to do with what you asked in the subject, the
> repository format definitely did not change. The only non-backward compatible
> change you might have experienced in the 1.x releases would be a change that
> is due to upgrading the Berkeley DB libraries, otherwise full backward
> compatibility was achieved.

I thought the repository format did change (svnadmin 1.3 can't operate
on repositories created with svnadmin 1.4), but the network layer is
still fully compatible, so old & new clients & servers can still
communicate.

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