I've got my svn repository in a server running svn 1.4.2 but I'm using svn 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 at home.
I found the svn will be corrupted when two the versions are different (at least in my case), and svn cleanup won't do the trick.
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You should not have any problems using an SVN 1.6.5 client with a 1.4.2 repository. The only time you'll have problems is if you use two different SVN client versions.
Your working copy will be unusable by a 1.4.2 client once the 1.6.5 client has used it. That doesn't corrupt SVN though... it only affects the working copy (and it's not "corrupted", just maintained in such a way that the 1.4.2 client does not understand).
Mike
2009-12-05 03:24:26
That's mostly correct. Note however that some operations will not work and give strange error messsages (as always with SVN ;-), for example the new merge features available since 1.5 and later. But for "usual" operations, as long as you don't downgrade your client with the same local working copy it should be fine.
RedGlyph
2009-12-05 10:16:17
Working copy format changes between significant SVN revs (e.g. 1.5.x to 1.6.x) is not uncommon. However, the WC format changes are documented in the SVN release notes.http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.6_releasenotes.html
msemack
2009-12-05 16:36:31