Aug 12 2008

svnant for subversion 1.5

Published by jfrank at 8:34 am under svnant

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.

7 responses so far

7 Responses to “svnant for subversion 1.5”

  1. # Mike Rankinon 27 Aug 2008 at 8:49 am

    Hi Josh,

    I’m not sure if you want this comment here or somewhere else like an issue tracking system, but you seem to be the dude to go to.

    I pulled down the release candidate and am getting this error:

    java.lang.AbstractMethodError: org.tmatesoft.svn.core.javahl.SVNClientImpl.setProgressListener(Lorg/tigris/subversion/javahl/ProgressListener;)V

    Is this something you can help with? I can post the full error message if you think it will help.

    Congrats on taking over svnant!

    Cheers,
    Mike.

  2. # jfrankon 15 Sep 2008 at 9:41 pm

    Typically the users list on subclipse is the place to discuss the issue first, then there is a public issue system if you get an account.

    A question, did you updgrade your installed subversion?

  3. # Thomon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:27 am

    I got exactly the same error as Mike…

  4. # Thomon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:28 am

    svn –version
    svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
    compiled Jul 31 2008, 09:45:17

  5. # Thomon 31 Oct 2008 at 8:35 am

    Found the cause, maybe.

    Seems I had an old jar named svnjava.jar (or javasvn.jar, i forget which), that is no longer necessary, and just mucks things up. Things seems to work if I delete it.

  6. # pbinkleyon 03 Dec 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Same here – deleting javasvn.jar (from an old version of svnkit, I think) did the trick.

  7. # Raghuon 30 Dec 2008 at 1:47 am

    I too had the error mentioned above when I was trying to build alfresco source code. I have SVN 1.5 installed. I read these comments and removed the javasvn.jar that is located at /trunk/HEAD/root/projects/3rd-party/lib/devenv inside alfresco source code and the error went off.

    Thank you.

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