Steve Holden wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> PS Just for my own information, am I correct in thinking that it is >>> *only* Bazaar in the (D)VCS world that has this problem, to any real >>> extent? I know old Mercurial clients can interact with newer servers >>> (ie, the wire protocol hasn't changed), I'm fairly sure that older >>> Subversion clients can talk to newer servers (at least, I've never >>> cared what client version I'm running). >>> >> I've definitely had an SVN server tell me that I needed to upgrade my >> client to 1.5. >> > > Interestingly, I've had 1.4 servers tell me I shouldn't have upgraded my > client to 1.5, which is a little tedious = particularly as the > information comes in the form of a hard-to-decipher error message and a > refusal to work. So much for backward compatibility. > Hmm... I've been using 1.5 clients with 1.4 and earlier servers for quite a while now. My guess is that you deciphered the error message wrong! A working copy created by a 1.5 client can only be manipulated by a 1.5 client (I sometimes have several clients on windows boxen) but work fine with earlier servers in my experience. Michael > Fortunately I still had the SVN 1.4 client on the Ubuntu machine that > was hosting the Samba shares, so I could use ssh and the command line to > maintain things. > > regards > Steve > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog
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