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Asked: 2014-05-28 07:18:03 +0800 CST

Subversion 1.8.8 doesn't work with Java svn libraries

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I'm running an up-to-date 14.04 installation. In a Java project built with Ant, I'm using the <svn> task to grab the current revision information. I've got (as far as I can tell) up-to-date versions of the "svnClientAdapter.jar" and "svnant.jar" libraries, and I've got the libsvn-java library installed for the JNI version of the adapter.

After doing the 13.10 -> 14.04 upgrade, I was told by svn that I needed to run svn update because the version of the runtime was ahead of the stuff in my checked-out tree. After doing that, I get errors from the svn ant task:

  [svn] <WcVersion> started ...
  [svn] svn: E155021: This client is too old to work with the working copy at

So what's up? Judging from various old questions it seems like this isn't a new phenomenon.

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1 Answers

  1. Built an updated svnClientAdapter.jar and that did the trick. It's super-easy to do:

    svn co http://subclipse.tigris.org/svn/subclipse/trunk/svnClientAdapter/ svnClientAdapter

    to check out the current source, and then just ant to build. The source includes a bunch of other stuff but svnClientAdapter.jar is dropped ready-to-use into a build directory.

    Probably a good idea to check the project site in case my URL above bit-rots.

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