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Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion
Greetings, Jeremy Bopp!
> Thank you for confirming my memory regarding these format changes.
> Still, while it makes sense for the project to make backward
> incompatible changes at times, it still seems odd that the new clients
> wouldn't support using the working copies from at least 1 minor version
> back in order to ease interoperability between SVN client implementations.
Unfortunatelly, changes in WC format for 1.7 was QUITE drastic...
As said, you can find more info on http://subversion.apache.org/
This is the wrong mailing list to discuss them.
> I could see that the new clients wouldn't *create* older version working
> copies in order to encourage adoption of the changes, but it wouldn't
> seem too hard on the face of it to keep around a compatibility layer
> from the last minor version in order to *use* an older working copy.
> It's the maintainers' decision how they build their project, of course.
> I just find this aspect surprising.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 17.11.2011, <22:50>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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