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What is Subversions client/server interoperability policy?

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What is Subversions client/server interoperability policy?

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For pre-1.0 releases of Subversion (which you shouldn’t be using anymore!), the client and server are designed to work as long as they aren’t more than one major release version apart. (For example, a 0.25.X client will talk to a 0.24.X or 0.26.X server.) Now that Subversion is beyond the 1.0 milestone, client/server interoperability policy is documented in the “Compatibility” section of the HACKING file.

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The client and server are designed to work as long as they aren’t more than one major release version apart. For example, any 1.X client will work with a 1.Y server. However, if the client and server versions don’t match, certain features may not be available. See the client/server interoperability policy is documented in the “Compatibility” section of the Hacker’s Guide to Subversion.

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Yes, absolutely. It’s ready for prime-time production. Subversion has been in development since 2000, and became self-hosting after one year. A year later when we declared “alpha”, Subversion was already being used by dozens of private developers and shops for real work. After that, it was two more years of bugfixing and stabilization until we reached 1.0. Most other projects probably would have called the product “1.0” much earlier, but we deliberately decided to delay that label as long as possible. We were aware that many people were waiting for a 1.0 before using Subversion, and had very specific expectations about the meaning of that label. So we stuck to that same standard.

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