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

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Rob Pointer <rpointer_at_clearvision-cm.com>wrote:

> Forgive me if I am misunderstanding here however SVN clients cannot be
> 'forward' compatible. i.e. an svn 1.4 client will not work with a 1.6
> server (repository format differs) and checking out in this manner would
> produce an error saying that the expected repository format was incorrect.
>
> However (as far as I am aware) point releases are file (e.g. 1.6.1 and
> 1.6.2 clients would work with servers of 1.6 and below .
>
>
It will *mostly* work to check out material from a new server repository
with an old client, and deal with a local working copy. There are nasty
edge cases: the syntax change in the "svn:externals" command is one of them.

This is an ongoing problem for old operating systems that should, frankly,
be obsoleted. But painful backporting is also what I get for being in the
business long enough that I remember when those systems were new....
Received on 2012-03-30 14:06:03 CEST