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RE: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file

From: Tony Sweeney <tsweeney_at_omnifone.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:26:06 -0000

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) [mailto:dk068x_at_att.com]
> Sent: 14 January 2011 19:07
> To: Tony Sweeney; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: RE: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Sweeney [mailto:tsweeney_at_omnifone.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:57 AM
> > To: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI); users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: SVN 1.6.15 checkout fails on particular file
> >
> > You can't mix Subversion client releases where the middle
> digit of the
> > version number differs. Subversion clients are backwards
> compatible
> > when talking to the server, but not when writing workspace
> metadata to
> > the filesystem. You can, in theory, use whatever version
> you like on
> > the client side against any server version. However, when
> you invoke
> a
> > client on a workspace, it checks to see if the local
> metadata is the
> > same version as itself, and if it discovers an older
> version, silently
> > upgrades the format to its own. At this point, older
> clients will no
> > longer work on that workspace.
>
> Just so we're clear here, I have these projects checked out
> in Eclipse, but not in the same directory that I'm trying to
> do the command-line checkout. I'm trying to do a separate
> checkout of these projects, just using the 1.6.15 client.
> I'm not using multiple client versions in the same
> checked-out directory, but I am attempting to checkout a
> module from SVN with the 1.6.15 client that has been
> previously checked out with different client versions.
>
> Is the conflict in mixing client versions relevant to the
> module in the server, or in the client-side directory? If
> it's the latter, then there should be no conflict, as I'm
> only using the 1.6.15 client in this directory.
>

Only in the client. If your workspaces are disjoint then that should
have worked. Subversion doesn't keep any record of workspace state
(more's the pity).

Tony.
Received on 2011-01-14 20:26:45 CET

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