On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:04:31PM +0000, Philip Martin wrote: > Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > > > You will likely be better > > of with a new checkout, given that such old working copies often exhibit > > problems during or after an upgrade to the 1.7.x format anyway. > > That's not possible as the repository effectively no longer exists.
Ah, I realise that now. Sorry, I skimmed the initial email too fast. > However it is possible to manually add enough information to make the > client attempt the upgrade. (If the working copy has any of the > corruption Stefan mentioned then the upgrade may still fail.) I would recommend to use a 1.6 client instead of trying to upgrade the WC. And above all import the data into a new repository so it can be versioned properly again. Having a working copy as the only copy of the data was bound to cause a dead-end situation at some point.
