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.

An SVN 1.0 client can checkout from an SVN 1.7 server just fine. Obviously
it will not support new features like merge tracking and tree conflicts,
but the features that existed for a 1.0 client will still work. The same
would be true for 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4. 1.5 and 1.6 clients. Heck, I am sure
there are several pre-1.0 client versions that would still work properly.

The only time a client would see the sort of errors you mention would be
when using the file:// protocol.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/