On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Ben Stover <bxsto...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > As I can see there are a couple of different SVN servers and mutiple SVN > clients. > > > > Do all SVN clients work with all SVN servers? > > Or are some clients tied to the usage of some special SVN servers? > > All client and servers should be interoperable, even across versions. > So a 1.7 client should work with a 1.0 server and vice versa. Clients > are generally interoperable with each other on the same working copy > as well. In that scenario, all of the clients do need to be from the > same major.minor Subversion version as the client working copy format > typically changes between versions > Some features are not backwards compatible. The syntax of svn:externals, for example, has changed significantly. And there are still people with RHEL 4 based systems out thee or legacy systems of various other vendors who are unlikely to get a more recent server or client.
