On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
Matt Keating wrote:
Dear all,
i have SVN server 1.4.x working on production. i want to go ahead and update to 1.6.x
You shouldn't have any problem upgrading the server side and it will be backwards compatible with older clients, but you should be aware that when you use an upgraded client it will modify the working copy format in place so that you can't go back to an older client without doing a fresh checkout. That can be a problem if you use a mix of command line and GUI clients. Also you don't get all of the new merge tracking features unless you use newer clients as well.
My experience is in line with Les' advice: you'll have a harder time on the client side than on the server. It's an especially difficult issue if several different machines share a filesystem containing repository working directories. (Getting CentOS and Debian to work and play well with SVN trees in an environment with a central /home mount is *fun*!)