jfrank

One day at work I saw that tortoiseSVN had an update, and so I blindly installed it and went about my business. It then began poisoning all the shared working copies that we use at work, with subversion 1.5 format, thereby causing all other svn clients to report “This client is too old to work with working copy …” Long story short, once you start its hard to stop.

I thought ok no problem, I’ll help all of my co workers upgrade and that will be that. Subversion 1.5 is a release after all, surely all the tools that go with it are released too! That turned out to be mostly true, but not for a specific tool that we use quite a bit here, svnant. There was no svnant bound against the latest dependencies.

I found an email by the guy who runs the show mark that said he wanted someone to take on the project. So I volunteered.

I became the svnant guy just like that. I made a simple release so if you are just dying to get svnant working with subversion 1.5 working copies, download the release candidate.