your svn client is too old error, how to fix it?

Question

I'm fairly new to svn, and have installed the fink svn client for mac. I have used this for quite soe time, and suddenly it tells me that my client is too old to browse this repository.

In between uses of the fink client, I have also used a GUI application called svnx, but now that I wanted to use the command line tool again, it keeps giving me this error, even after redownloading fink.

Answer 1

To fix the problem you need to refetch your repository from scratch using the client that you will use later on.

Answer 2

You can use this python script (change-svn-wc-format.py) to downgrade your local repository.

Answer 3

It's not a nice fix, but just making a new directory, and doing a checkout there worked fine. strange because I removed all files from the directory I tried to checkout into, (yes, also the hidden "." files)