version control - Subversion: SVN E160043. Expected FS format between '1' and '4

Question

I am following the instructions on this blog to setup subversion on my development PC: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/04/setting-up-subversion-on-windows.html.

I get an error when I get to the following line in the blog: "Congratulations! You just checked your first change into source control! " i.e. instead of saying "congratulations.....", it says: SVN E160043. Expected FS format between '1' and '4'. Found format 6. I have spent some considerable time Googling this but I have not found an answer.

I am running subversion on a Windows 7 64 bit PC. I have disabled the Windows firewall and ZoneAlarm.

Answer 1

If you want to create backwards-compatible repositories from v1.8, you can use the --compatible-version flag. example:

svnadmin create --compatible-version 1.6 PATHNAME

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/structure has a list showing which FS formats are compatible with different versions of svn. But you should just check the versions of svn on the machines that you are going to use, and make your repo compatible with the oldest version.