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How to upgrade built-in subversion

I have been using the version of subversion (1.4.4) built-in to Leopard (10.5.6) successfully for many months now but a recent commit from a windows subversion client (1.5) updated the version of the repository so that now I cannot commit from my Mac any more. I get the following error message: -

svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client

It seems like I need to upgrade the version of subversion on my Mac but I don't know how to do this. I have found some tutorials on downloading a pre-packaged version but this sits alongside the built-in version and does not upgrade it, which seems pretty messy to me.

I hope someone can help as it seems a shame that the built-in Mac subversion is quite a way behind the PC version.

How can I upgrade the version of subversion on my Mac to the latest version?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 8, 2009 9:07 PM

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Jan 27, 2009 3:18 AM in response to IanDavies

Since subversion is used by Xcode you probably do not want to upgrade the version installed by Apple, that is why there is another copy on your machine when installing from the binary packages downloaded from the subversion homepage. I am fighting with the same problem, the easy way to fix this is to add the path to the new version before the path to the old one.

How to upgrade built-in subversion

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