Jul 12 2009
Ubuntu 9.04 – Upgrade subversion 1.5 to 1.6
As I’m using Windows and Ubuntu in parallel, I’m using a third partition for storing my data, so that I’m able to access them from both Windows and Ubuntu.
In my Windows environment, I’m using TortoiseSVN, which is in my opinion the most powerful and user-friendly subversion client at all. After upgrading the TortoiseSVN to version 1.6, I wasn’t able to work with 1.5 Subversion clients.
Unfortunately, the version that you currently get by installing Subversion on Ubuntu 9.04 via apt-get is version 1.5. So a subversion update (“svn up”) on data updated some times before with TortoiseSVN ends in the following error message:
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’. You need to get a newer Subversion client, or to downgrade this working copy. See http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#working-copy-format-change for details.
Therefore I have to upgrade my subversion client. Fortunately, Anders Kaseorg has provided a deb package for Subversion 1.6 for Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackelope” at https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/subversion-1.6.
Thanks to Grey-Bearded Geek for providing this hint.
