Ah so there was my misunderstanding on the question. The question was regarding using the client to connect via a web server (i.e. dav svn protocol) I was assuming a direct repo connection. i should read properly before replying :)
rob On Friday, 30 March 2012, Mark Phippard wrote: > 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. > > > An SVN 1.0 client can checkout from an SVN 1.7 server just fine. > Obviously it will not support new features like merge tracking and tree > conflicts, but the features that existed for a 1.0 client will still work. > The same would be true for 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4. 1.5 and 1.6 clients. Heck, > I am sure there are several pre-1.0 client versions that would still work > properly. > > The only time a client would see the sort of errors you mention would be > when using the file:// protocol. > > -- > Thanks > > Mark Phippard > http://markphip.blogspot.com/ > -- *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/> *
