Stefan Sperling wrote on Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 20:58:37 +0100: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:33:49AM -0700, Safarulla Meerasahib wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > We have recently taken over a production application from other team, > > which uses the SVN 1.5.0 as one of the component. Now we have a requirement > > to upgrade this to latest version of the subversion. > > > > While going through the Apache subversion link we have noticed that > > Subversion 1.9 can only upgrade working copies created with Subversion 1.6 > > and Subversion 1.7. > > > > Is there any workaround to upgrade 1.5.0 to 1.9? > > Use 'svn checkout' to get new working copies after upgrading. > Note that working copies are only used by the Subversion client.
For working copies, you can instead first install 1.6 or 1.7, upgrade all working copies, then install 1.9 and upgrade them again. There are still various restrictions, such as [1], so be sure to read the release notes for all intermediate versions (1.6 through 1.9 inclusive). Cheers, Daniel [1] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7#wc-upgrade
