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Re: old server, new client?

From: Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.connolly_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:00:06 +0100

features from 1.5 and 1.6 servers are not available, but you can continue to
access the repository fine.

2009/10/22 Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists_at_gmail.com>

> I posed this question on freenode's #svn and did some google searching
> before e-mailing this list.
>
> If we have an old SVN server (likely 1.4.x, but that's unknown, and I
> don't have admin access to it), and we want to use it with a 1.6.5
> client, what happens?
>
> 1) Things are just fine, no problems Can ensue even if you keep using
> some 1.4.x clients
> 2) Things are fine until one of the 1.6.x clients uses a new feature
> that the 1.4.x clients don't support. Then you either must stop using
> that feature or upgrade the old clients
> 3) The 1.6.x client goes and rearranges things in the repo
> automatically in such a way that the 1.4.x clients stop functioning,
> and everyone must upgrade their clients to 1.6.x in a sudden hurry
>
> ?
>
> Thanks!
>
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