using SVN 1.8.3 with Xcode 5

Question

I updated the Subversion client on my system to 1.8.3. I did a checkout of my repository from Xcode 5\'s Source Control menu. Then in terminal

Answer 1

Writing to 'defaults' won't work for Xcode 5. Newer version of Xcode ship with it's own SVN binary located in:

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/

You need to replace this binary to upgrade Xcode's SVN client to 1.8. Assuming your new SVN client is located in /usr/local/bin/ (default brew install path) type the following in a terminal:

cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/
sudo mv ./svn ./svn.org
sudo mv ./svnadmin ./svnadmin.org
sudo mv ./svndumpfilter ./svndumpfilter.org
sudo mv ./svnlook ./svnlook.org
sudo mv ./svnrdump ./svnrdump.org
sudo mv ./svnserve ./svnserve.org
sudo mv ./svnsync ./svnsync.org
sudo mv ./svnversion ./svnversion.org

sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svn svn
sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svnadmin svnadmin
sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svndumpfilter svndumpfilter
sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svnlook svnlook
sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svnrdump svnrdump
sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svnserve svnserve
sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svnsync svnsync
sudo ln -Ff /usr/local/bin/svnversion svnversion

I did this with Xcode 5.1 and SVN 1.8.8, haven't had any problems at all.