On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Ben Stover <bxstover_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > As I can see there are a couple of different SVN servers and mutiple SVN
> clients.
> >
> > Do all SVN clients work with all SVN servers?
> > Or are some clients tied to the usage of some special SVN servers?
>
> All client and servers should be interoperable, even across versions.
> So a 1.7 client should work with a 1.0 server and vice versa. Clients
> are generally interoperable with each other on the same working copy
> as well. In that scenario, all of the clients do need to be from the
> same major.minor Subversion version as the client working copy format
> typically changes between versions
>
Some features are not backwards compatible. The syntax of svn:externals,
for example, has changed significantly. And there are still people with
RHEL 4 based systems out thee or legacy systems of various other vendors
who are unlikely to get a more recent server or client.
Received on 2012-03-29 13:53:41 CEST