Hello, Cygwin currently offerers two Subversion packages. One from 1.7.x series and another from 1.8.x series.
Subversion version series are important because local repositories created by each series (1.6.x, 1.7.x, 1.8.x) are incompatible. In short, if you do "svn checkout" with svn 1.6.x, you cannot do "svn update" with svn 1.7.x or 1.8.x. For a variety of reasons, at my office, I am forced to use svn 1.6.x series. This precludes me from using standard pre-built Cygwin packages for Subversion work. I'm always jumping back to a IDE or DOS box to manage my svn local repos. I'm not here to complain about this "feature" of Subversion. AFAIK: Cygwin seems to normally provide at least two versions of any package. That's great, and usually helps. However, this situation is a bit rare. I would like to help make each series available in Cygwin. I've done some googling on this matter and noticed a few others asking on mailing lists (not Cygwin, I think) about how to get svn 1.6.x on the latest Cygwin. Frankly, there were no satisfying answers. As a starter, I am happy to volunteer to create a specific Cygwin package for Subversion 1.6.x. Additionally, I already built my own copy of Subversion 1.6.x using Cygwin build toolchain. Please share you thoughts on this matter. Kind regards, Kevin Connor ARPE Hongkong -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
