TortoiseSVN downgrade issue from 1.8 to 1.7
Solution 1
For people who don't read the comments first.
- Backup any changes you have in your working directory
- Uninstall TortoiseSVN 1.8
- Reboot
- Install TortoiseSVN 1.7
- Do a fresh checkout into a new directory
- Manually copy any needed changes from your backup to new directory
Solution 2
Ther is no need to check out to a separate directory and lose local changes.
After downgrading to TortoiseSVN 1.7 it is possible to recreate the SVN 1.7 format by:
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Removing all the .svn directories
for /d /r . %d in (.svn) do @if exist "%d" rd /s/q "%d"
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Checkout using
--force
:svn co --force <repo_url> <local_dir>
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nik_kgp
Updated on June 07, 2022Comments
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nik_kgp almost 2 years
I was using the TortoiseSVN 1.7.11 client (Windows 7). I updated it to 1.8 and then it worked for some time with the 1.8 release. But other machines with which I'm working are still using 1.7.11, and I can't upgrade them so I thought of downgrading to 1.7.11. Now it's not working at all. I took a fresh checkout and it still asks to upgrade the working copy.
When I click this option, it says "can't upgrade as it is not a pre-1.7 working copy directory. Missing default entry. I tried removing registries and delete configuration information from
%appdata%
folder too, but it doesn't fix the issue.-
David Heffernan almost 11 yearsUninstall TSVN. Reinstall version 1.7. Delete your working copy. Create new working copy.
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David Heffernan almost 11 yearsYou have not got rid of 1.8 yet. Complete uninstall, reboot, reinstall tsvn 1.7
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nik_kgp almost 11 yearsAs I mentioned, I have taken a fresh checkout in a fresh directory.