Michael Foord wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Steven Bethard wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> PS Just for my own information, am I correct in thinking that it is >>>> *only* Bazaar in the (D)VCS world that has this problem, to any real >>>> extent? I know old Mercurial clients can interact with newer servers >>>> (ie, the wire protocol hasn't changed), I'm fairly sure that older >>>> Subversion clients can talk to newer servers (at least, I've never >>>> cared what client version I'm running). >>>> >>> I've definitely had an SVN server tell me that I needed to upgrade my >>> client to 1.5. >>> >> >> Interestingly, I've had 1.4 servers tell me I shouldn't have upgraded my >> client to 1.5, which is a little tedious = particularly as the >> information comes in the form of a hard-to-decipher error message and a >> refusal to work. So much for backward compatibility. >> > > Hmm... I've been using 1.5 clients with 1.4 and earlier servers for > quite a while now. My guess is that you deciphered the error message wrong! > > A working copy created by a 1.5 client can only be manipulated by a 1.5 > client (I sometimes have several clients on windows boxen) but work fine > with earlier servers in my experience. > You are correct. In fact I got over the issue by using the 1.4 client from Cygwin.
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