On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:37, James Ralston wrote: > Recently, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 updated its Subversion package > from 1.5.x to 1.6.11. > > This exposed a *forwards* compatibility problem: the Subversion 1.6 > hotcopy command fails on Subversion 1.5 repositories: > > $ svnadmin hotcopy test-repo test-repo.HOTCOPY; echo $? > svnadmin: Can't open file 'test-repo/db/fsfs.conf': No such file or directory > 1 > > We tested if creating an empty db/fsfs.conf file will resolve this > issue, and it does. And this issue seems to have been fixed in 1.6.13. > > But given that this very simple compatibility issue wasn't caught > until two bugfix releases later, we're concerned that there may be > other forwards compatibility issues that will bite us in the future.
The Subversion team's promise is that any Subversion 1.x client will be compatible with any Subversion 1.x server, and I would assume with any Subversion 1.x repository. If bugs are introduced that break that promise, I'm confident that those bugs would be fixed.
