On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Rob Pointer <rpoin...@clearvision-cm.com>wrote:
> 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 . > > It will *mostly* work to check out material from a new server repository with an old client, and deal with a local working copy. There are nasty edge cases: the syntax change in the "svn:externals" command is one of them. This is an ongoing problem for old operating systems that should, frankly, be obsoleted. But painful backporting is also what I get for being in the business long enough that I remember when those systems were new....
