SVN upgrade working copy

Question

I cannot do a SVN commit. I get this error:

org.apache.subversion.javahl.ClientException: The working copy needs to be upgraded
svn: Working copy \'C:\\....          


        

Answer 1

If you're getting this error from Netbeans (7.2+) then it means that your separately installed version of Subversion is higher than the version in netbeans. In my case Netbeans (v7.3.1) had SVN v1.7 and I'd just upgraded my SVN to v1.8.

If you look in Tools > Options > Miscellaneous (tab) > Versioning (tab) > Subversion (pane), set the Preferred Client = CLI, then you can set the path the the installed SVN which for me was C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin.

More can be found on the Netbeans Subversion Clients FAQ.