Can Svn 1.8 be used with Emacs 24 vc-svn?

Question

I'm running Emacs 24.3.1 on windows, and using TortoiseSVN 1.8.4 for SVN access.

The problem is that Emacs doesn't recognize my working copies. E.g. vc-update returns the message "No fileset is available here", no matter what file I try it on.

vc-register on a new file returns "Spawning child process: exec format error"

Is any configuration needed to get the SVN integration to work? Or is SVN 1.8 just not supported?

Answer 1

The issue was that for some reason Windows group policy was blocking Emacs from running the SVN executable, even though installed in C:\Program Files. Adding an explicit exception solved the problem.

Apparently SVN 1.8 works just as well as SVN 1.7.

Case closed.