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Re: Version issues?

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:03:26 -0600

On Nov 3, 2008, at 19:19, David C. Hicks wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Nov 3, 2008, at 19:03, David C. Hicks wrote:
>>
>>> Gleason, Todd wrote:
>>>
>>>> David C. Hicks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm doing a simple "svn update" and I get this error message:
>>>>> svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please
>>>>> get a newer Subversion client
>>>>>
>>>>> The workspace was originally checked out using the Subclipse
>>>>> plugin in
>>>>> Eclipse.
>>>>
>>>> The Subclipse client is a newer version; you need to have
>>>> equivalent
>>>> client versions because the working copy format changes from
>>>> version to
>>>> version. Note that not all clients are published with versions
>>>> identical to Subversion itself (TortoiseSVN for instance is often a
>>>> version number or two ahead of the Subversion client).
>>>
>>> That's what I was afraid of. It'll be a miracle if I can get our
>>> admin to upgrade the server. Looks like I'll probably have to
>>> regress my client.
>>
>> The server version is immaterial. The problem in your case is that
>> you are trying to manipulate a single working copy using a
>> Subversion 1.4 client and a Subversion 1.5 client. You need to use
>> either only Subversion 1.4 clients or only Subversion 1.5 clients.
>
>>
> I gather the 1.5 client you're referring to would be Subclipse? My
> command-line client is 1.4.4.
> I didn't realize that Subclipse might be that far ahead. I'll look
> into that.

Yes, it looks like Subclipse 1.3.6 (November 2007) and later use the
Subversion 1.5 working copy format. See:

http://subclipse.tigris.org/subclipse_1.4.x/changes.html

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