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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. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 17.11.2011, <22:50> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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