Do all SVN clients run with all SVN servers?

Ah so there was my misunderstanding on the question. The question was
regarding using the client to connect via a web server (i.e. dav svn
protocol) I was assuming a direct repo connection. i should read properly
before replying :)

rob

On Friday, 30 March 2012, Mark Phippard wrote:

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

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