PhilFreo.com » SVN http://philfreo.com/blog The portfolio and blog of Phil Freo, on web design, development, and entrepreneurship. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:33:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 On OSX, svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client http://philfreo.com/blog/svn-this-client-is-too-old-to-work-with-working-copy-please-get-a-newer-subversion-client/ http://philfreo.com/blog/svn-this-client-is-too-old-to-work-with-working-copy-please-get-a-newer-subversion-client/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:08:16 +0000 Phil Freo http://www.philfreo.com/blog/?p=51 I got this message when trying to use Subversion on OS X through Terminal.

I checked out my svn version using “svn –version” and it said I was using 1.4.4 – so I decided to update. Here’s how…

Download the latest SVN binaries for OS X and install them just like any other program:
http://svnbinaries.open.collab.net/

Update your system wide path settings by editing /etc/profile through the Terminal:

$ cd /etc/
$ sudo vi profile

At the top of the file, add the following line of text, then save and quit vi.

export PATH=/opt/subversion:$PATH

Then rename the old binary:

$ cd /usr/bin
$ sudo mv svn svn.old
$ cd ~
$ svn --version

And you should see the later version (mine is 1.5.5) and all is good.

Thanks to http://www.imarichardson.com/2008/10/06/osx-svn-woes-client-is-too-old-to-work-with-working-copy/

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