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.
However (as far as I am aware) point releases are file (e.g. 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 clients would work with servers of 1.6 and below . Rob On 30 March 2012 01:50, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 20:33:44 -0400: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name > >wrote: > > > > > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:53:05 -0400: > > > > 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 > > > > > > The old syntax is recognized by all servers and clients, and the help > > > output documents exactly which syntaxes are not compatible with older > > > (<=1.4) clients. > > > > > And RHEL 4 comes with subversion 1.1.1. It's still under extended support > > from Red Hat: I'm trying to build a clean update to the Repoforge 1.6.17 > > that compiles on all RHEL 4 or greater releases, and it is *NOT* easy. > > Very nice, and good luck. My main point was to clarify your statement > about the compatibility of svn:externals, not to claim that 1.1 is or > isn't supported. > -- *Rob Pointer MSc* Software Specialist and Consultant rpoin...@clearvision-cm.com <mmusc...@clearvision-cm.com> * Tel: +44 (0) 845 459 9530 ** ** <http://www.twitter.com/clearvisioncm> <http://www.facebook.com/clearvisioncm> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/clearvision> <http://www.clearvision-cm.com/rss-feed/clearvision-news> <http://www.clearvision-cm.com/> *
