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dreza
dreza

Reputation: 3645

Can i use TortoiseSVN 1.7.9 with Subversion 1.8

I am currently using TortoiseSVN 1.7.12 and it says our Subversion is 1.7.9. Can I upgrade my TortoiseSVN client to the latest 1.8 even though the website says 1.8 is linked to svn 1.8, without upgrading the svn server?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2838

Answers (2)

Frederic
Frederic

Reputation: 760

No subversion client will support both 1.7 and 1.8 at the same time, although you can have multiple versions of command line clients installed. Unfortunately that is not possible with shell extensions such as TortoiseSVN. So bottom line is, don't upgrade to 1.8 until all your subversion tools are at 1.8.

It's explained here : Issue 518: v1.8 not supporting svn 1.7 format on Windows-7 64-bit SP1

Upvotes: 0

David W.
David W.

Reputation: 107030

Yup.

Unfortunately, I can't do a one word answer, so...

You can use almost any version of a Subversion client with almost any version of the server. Some servers might prevent you from using client revisions earlier than 1.5 since SVN 1.5 added merge tracking and earlier clients cannot handle that.

This may change when Subversion 2.0 comes out.

Upvotes: 1

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