My current project at Yahoo! is using a Subversion repository for version control, as opposed to the usual CVS (thankfully). Unfortunately, it turns out that the svn client installed on Mac OS X Leopard up to and including 10.5.6, is 1.4 whereas the “best” release is 1.5.
It’s very simple to get the newer 1.5 version up and running by compiling from source:
- Download the source code from subversion: Documents & files: Source code
- Unpack the source code and enter the
subversion-1.5.xdirectory ./configure --without-saslmakesudo make install
This will install Subversion 1.5 in your /usr/local path.
I added the --without-sasl option to prevent the following error from occurring when committing files:
svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Cannot negotiate authentication mechanism
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While this will work, you end up without any language bindings, no server modules and a Subversion install that doesn’t work with svn+ssh or BDB repositories. Why go through all that trouble yourself. (Compiling Subversion and its bindings for OSX.) http://tinyurl.com/5dh9ou