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Re: Do all SVN clients run with all SVN servers?

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:03:28 +0200

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:53:05 -0400:
> 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

The old syntax is recognized by all servers and clients, and the help
output documents exactly which syntaxes are not compatible with older
(<=1.4) clients.

> 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 14:04:10 CEST

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