client version vs. server version

[Hamilton Link <he...@sandia.gov>]

Well, I think svn is approaching the point that I am going to start 
using it at work instead of cvs. I am concerned about having to play 
the moving-target game with the client systems as I go from version to 
version on the server, though.

If I have a svn server and a number of people running svn clients 
scattered around, what determines when they have to upgrade their 
client software? Do they need to upgrade every time the server is 
upgraded, or do they only need to upgrade when some specific piece in 
the new server version changes (and does this happen all the time, 
sometimes, or only rarely)? I know the database needs to be dumped 
before upgrading and reloaded afterwards if the database format changes 
(and that such changes are loudly announced and probably won't be done 
between the release of 1.0 and some substantially later version unless 
some major upset happens, right?), but I can't think of ever having 
heard about forced client upgrades.

thanks,
hamilton



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Re: client version vs. server version

[Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:10, Hamilton Link wrote:
> If I have a svn server and a number of people running svn clients 
> scattered around, what determines when they have to upgrade their 
> client software?

Our pre-1.0 promise is that clients and servers can be one version apart
from each other.  Frequently, we are more generous than that; I think
the last incompatibility was that 0.32 breaks HTTP compatibility with
versions prior to 0.28, and this was noted prominently in the CHANGES
file for the 0.32 release.  At some point down the road, ra_svn will
break compatibility with versions prior to 0.33, and that will also be
featured prominently in the CHANGES file for that release.


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