On Jan 11, 2014, at 08:18, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> I use svn client installed by macports. It's current version is 1.8.5. > > I've been down that road before. Macports is mostly reliable, but not > entirely reliable.
I’m a manager of the MacPorts project. If you’re experiencing any problems with MacPorts, please contact us on the macports-users mailing list or file a ticket in our issue tracker. > And every time you apply some update to XCode, apple replaces with default > binaries again, which you won't know by default, until you step into some > pitfall and waste time figuring it out. Yes, you should not replace Apple software; that route only leads to sadness. > And I've run into a lot of conflicts between macports and homebrew… That’s to be expected. Use one package manager only, not a mix of two or more; more sadness there. > If you need 1.8, I'll agree, thanks to macports, there *is* a solution > available. But I'm choosing not to go that route... Thanks... MacPorts Subversion works fine; I use it daily.