TortoiseSVN downgrade issue from 1.8 to 1.7
For people who don't read the comments first.
- Backup any changes you have in your working directory
- Uninstall TortoiseSVN 1.8
- Reboot
- Install TortoiseSVN 1.7
- Do a fresh checkout into a new directory
- Manually copy any needed changes from your backup to new directory
Ther is no need to check out to a separate directory and lose local changes.
After downgrading to TortoiseSVN 1.7 it is possible to recreate the SVN 1.7 format by:
Removing all the .svn directories
for /d /r . %d in (.svn) do @if exist "%d" rd /s/q "%d"Checkout using
--force:svn co --force <repo_url> <local_dir>
You have not performed a fresh checkout with the TortoiseSVN 1.7 client. If you had, you wouldn't get working copy format errors.
Remove TortoiseSVN 1.8.0, install TortoiseSVN 1.7.x, and checkout a fresh working copy.