Stefan Kueng wrote on Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 16:11:59 +0100: > I guess I'm a little late to this discussion, but I just upgraded today to > the svn trunk and saw the new APIs. > From what I understand is that new clients can choose which WC format to use > during checkout/upgrade? >
Yes. By default, the oldest supported WC format (currently f31, supported by 1.8–1.14) will be used. See [1]. [1] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/202202.mbox/%3C2069FF58-3621-414A-A3AA-28CDA210017C%40getmailspring.com%3E > If that's correct, I'd like to propose a small enhancement: > > * provide an env variable that specifies the highest WC format to use. > > the reason for this is that some users have multiple svn clients installed, > and when upgrading one they can set this variable to avoid that not-upgraded > clients can still access new wc's. Only when all clients are upgraded they > can remove the env variable or set it to the newest format. > I figure this would mostly affect windows users, but still I think this > would be worth to implement. This use-case is already supported by the use of the oldest WC format by default, isn't it? Cheers, Daniel
