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nik_kgp
nik_kgp

Reputation: 1122

TortoiseSVN downgrade issue from 1.8 to 1.7

I was using the TortoiseSVN 1.7.11 client (Windows 7). I updated it to 1.8 and then it worked for some time with the 1.8 release. But other machines with which I'm working are still using 1.7.11, and I can't upgrade them so I thought of downgrading to 1.7.11. Now it's not working at all. I took a fresh checkout and it still asks to upgrade the working copy.

When I click this option, it says "can't upgrade as it is not a pre-1.7 working copy directory. Missing default entry. I tried removing registries and delete configuration information from %appdata% folder too, but it doesn't fix the issue.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 12463

Answers (3)

F Pereira
F Pereira

Reputation: 1367

Ther is no need to check out to a separate directory and lose local changes.

After downgrading to TortoiseSVN 1.7 it is possible to recreate the SVN 1.7 format by:

  • Removing all the .svn directories

    for /d /r . %d in (.svn) do @if exist "%d" rd /s/q "%d"

  • Checkout using --force:

    svn co --force <repo_url> <local_dir>

Upvotes: 1

Jason Rowe
Jason Rowe

Reputation: 6276

For people who don't read the comments first.

  • Backup any changes you have in your working directory
  • Uninstall TortoiseSVN 1.8
  • Reboot
  • Install TortoiseSVN 1.7
  • Do a fresh checkout into a new directory
  • Manually copy any needed changes from your backup to new directory

Upvotes: 12

bahrep
bahrep

Reputation: 30662

  • You have not performed a fresh checkout with the TortoiseSVN 1.7 client. If you had, you wouldn't get working copy format errors.

  • Remove TortoiseSVN 1.8.0, install TortoiseSVN 1.7.x, and checkout a fresh working copy.

Upvotes: 0

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