On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 14:07, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) <dk0...@att.com> wrote: > I work on Windows with Cygwin. In Eclipse, I can do SVN checkouts and > updates with the SVN on our server, which is running SVN 1.4.x. I'm > doing this with the latest Subversive and connector. I've been told > that after SVN 1.4.x, the "storage format" changed, so doing checkouts > and updates with a SVN client newer than 1.4.x would screw up the .svn > directories.
Over the network RA layers (http, svn, svn+ssh), client & server versions can differ as long as they're both 1.x. A 1.0 client can talk to a 1.6 server, and vice versa. The *client-side* storage format has been changed in most 1.x releases, and it's a silent update, so if you're using multiple clients, all must be the same minor revision - you can't mix a 1.4 & 1.5 client on the same system, unless they operate on separate WCs. I suspect you're running into problems for at least one of the following reasons, if not both: 1) Your Eclipse plugin & command-line client are not the same minor version of Subversion. 2) The differences introduced by Cygwin to trick the SVN client into thinking it's in a *NIX environment are conflicting with the real Windows client that you have in Eclipse. > In fact, I think I've seen this happen. I tried doing an update with my > SVN command-line client (I appear to have SVN 1.5.7, from CollabNet), in > a project that I work on in Eclipse, and when I refreshed my Eclipse, it > got so confused I eventually had to create a new workspace. Working in > the old workspace gave me constant error dialogs from Subversive. I > suppose it's possible this wasn't a storage format issue, but simply an > issue with updating the SVN state outside of Subversive. I don't know. > I don't attempt checkouts or updates from the command line anymore. > Doing "svn diff" or other information queries works fine. Try dropping the Cygwin environment for a while and exclusively use Eclipse and the *native* Win32 client in the Windows Command Prompt. Your Subversive plugin must be based on the same Subversion version as your Win32 client.
