So to get a clean system, I removed svn: $ brew remove subversion ClientException: svn: E155021: This client is too old to work with the working copy atĪctually I had already installed subversion 1.8 but I didn’t install it with the Java language bindings (which I did when I installed svn 1.7). ‘/Users/henribenoit/workspace/kanban’ (format ’31’).Įrror getting status for resource P/kanban .ClientException: svn: E155021: This client is too old to work with the working copy at

0 of 1 resources were synchronized.Īn error occurred synchronizing /kanban: Error getting status for resource P/kanban .ClientException: svn: E155021: This client is too old to work with the working copy at Problems reported while synchronizing SVNStatusSubscriber. No big deal, I just upgraded all working copies: $ svn upgradeīut now I couldn’t synchronize the working copies with the repository using Eclipse any more because eclipse was using the old svn version: You need to upgrade the working copy first. Is too old (format 29) to work with client version '1.8.0 (r1490375)' (expects format 31). Svn: E155036: The working copy at '/Users/henribenoit/workspace/kanban' Svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command That’s why I didn’t do it in Eclipse) and saw that I hadn’t upgraded it yet: $ svn up Now I tried to update a working copy from the command line (it contains documents and not code. I installed subversion 1.8 using Homebrew some time ago but Eclipse kept using the old svn version so I didn’t have to upgrade my working copies. So if you are using Eclipse and Subversion, just ignore the Mac specifics (e.g. Of course the actual solution to this problem is not Mac OS X specific but would also work with Linux. I am not too sure whether you’d have the same problem with Subversive or whether it can be fix in the same way.

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