Strange svn error

[Craig Russell <pa...@gmail.com>]

I just got a new Mac this week with El Capitan and tried to use my svn
repos with it. No luck. Svn commands all return E155021 client too old. But
client is 1.7.20 from Nov 11 2015.

Any ideas?

Re: Strange svn error

[Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net>]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Craig Russell <pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got a new Mac this week with El Capitan and tried to use my svn
> repos with it. No luck. Svn commands all return E155021 client too old. But
> client is 1.7.20 from Nov 11 2015.
>
> Any ideas?

I'm guessing that somewhere along the way you updated your version of
subversion on your previous mac.

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Here's what I get on Ubuntu 14.04:

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.8.8 (r1568071)
   compiled Aug 20 2015, 12:51:30 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Here's what I get on Mac OS/X El Capitan:

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.7.20 (r1667490)
   compiled Nov 11 2015, 16:49:02

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svn has an upgrade command, but not a downgrade command.  Therefore
your options are to either do a fresh checkout or upgrade your svn
client.  If you chose the latter, perhaps this will help:

http://andowebsit.es/blog/noteslog.com/post/how-to-upgrade-subversion-on-osx/

If you do this, let me know as I have been keeping my mac on the
X-Code version of subversion so that I could reproduce any problems
that you may encounter.

- Sam Ruby