Comments on: Upgrade subversion client on mac osx

By: James

James — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:39:10 +0000

I hate the way OS X comes with these things and when you want to update then you have 2 versions. Python is the same way. OS X needs some kind of apt-get or something. I know there’s Fink, but you’re still out of luck with the stuff that comes preinstalled, right? Pretty lame.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:55:43 +0000

Solved it… obvious I suppose but you also need to update the path of dav_svn_module in ServerAdmin to point to the new module that comes with subversion install default at /opt/subversion/lib/svn-apache/mod_dav_svn.so

Assuming you are using OS X Leopard Server.

Great though. Thanks.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:07:28 +0000

I’m having same issue as Yves De Billoez…

I removed the old svn* files from /usr/bin … setup the symlinks and was still getting 1.4.4. showing on Repository …

I thought I’d delete and recreate the Repository using 1.6.5 … now when I try to browse via Safari, I get cannot connect o svn repository show in browser and this in console….

[Fri Oct 16 20:37:55 2009] [error] A subtree cannot specify a different DAV provider than its parent.
[Fri Oct 16 20:37:55 2009] [error] [client ::1] (20014)Internal error: Expected FS format ’2′; found format ’4′
[Fri Oct 16 20:37:55 2009] [error] [client ::1] Could not fetch resource information. [500, #0]
[Fri Oct 16 20:37:55 2009] [error] [client ::1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #160043]
[Fri Oct 16 20:37:55 2009] [error] [client ::1] Could not open the requested SVN filesystem [500, #160043]

By: Quang Thanh

Quang Thanh — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:01:13 +0000

Thanks for your tip, Jettro

By: Yves De Billoez

Yves De Billoez — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:28:08 +0000

Problem with the upgrade is that Apache 2 is still compiled with Subversion 1.4.4.

Apache version on Leopard:
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7l DAV/2 PHP/5.2.10 SVN/1.4.4

Is there any way to upgrade Apache dav svn to the SVN 1.5 or 1.6 after doing previous stepsN

By: jettro

jettro — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:36:52 +0000

In my home directory I have a file called .bash_profile. This file contains a few lines for java, maven and one for subversion. I have the following line that might be the thing you are looking for:

export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH

Hope that helps

By: Lorin Tackett

Lorin Tackett — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:12:07 +0000

This worked – for a hot minute, rebooted and the changes went away. /usr/local/bin is in my .profile, and when I echo $PATH it is before /usr/local.

I tried to get the version of the binary directly. This is the result:

homestar:bin ltackett$ pwd
/usr/local/bin
homestar:bin ltackett$ ls
change-svn-wc-format.py
irb
rdoc
svn
svnlook
svnversion
erb
rails
ri
svnadmin
svnserve
testrb
gem
rake
ruby
svndumpfilter
svnsync
homestar:bin ltackett$ ./svn –version
-bash: ./svn: No such file or directory
homestar:bin ltackett$ cd svn
-bash: cd: svn: No such file or directory

Am I doing it wrong? Any help here would rock, I am having trouble connecting to one of my work repositories because of this (the whole reason I upgraded).

By: jettro

jettro — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:00:12 +0000

That is an option, I did not do it, because I want to switch often. So I just change my path if I use svn command line.

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:34:10 +0000

Thanks. I had to do one more thing to get it working in OS X (10.5.6). I had to create a symbolic link to point to /opt/subversion/bin/svn in /usr/local/bin. I don’t know why, but svn –version was still showing 1.4.4, even after updating.

$: sudo cp /usr/local/bin/svn /usr/local/bin/svn_copy
$: sudo ln -s /opt/subversion/bin/svn /usr/local/bin/svn

and then it worked.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:19:14 +0000

Thanks! Worked great here.