Client requirements

To be able to use this guide, make sure that the following requirement is met:

Component	Required characteristics
Subversion client	Should be based on Subversion 1.14.x or later.

The official command-line Subversion client called svn, which is used in this guide for demonstration purposes, is available for most operating systems. If you encounter any issues with installing or updating a Subversion client, please contact your system administrator.

It is important that all users working with the repository use an up-to-date Subversion client. If any user commits merges to the repository via a very outdated Subversion client, this will cause problems with automatic merges for everyone using that repository. This is because early versions of Subversion clients do not record the merge tracking information that is required for automatic merges.

Checking the version of the command-line Subversion client

To check the Subversion release of the official command-line Subversion client, use the following command:

C:\Users\Alex> svn --version

The first line in the output should contain svn, version 1.14.x or later.