svn for eclipse on mac os lion

Question

I need to use Subversion with Eclipse on Mac Lion. I encounter problem as below

I saw: Subclipse in Mac OS Lion shows "Unable to load default SVN client" e

Answer 1

In case anyone using homebrew wants SVN version 1.6 support (as I did due to interacting with some old servers), here is how I got it to work:

Install SVN 1.6 via homebrew:

brew tap homebrew/versions
brew info homebrew/versions/subversion16
brew install homebrew/versions/subversion16 --java

Ensure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH before /usr/bin, so that homebrew's SVN is ran instead of OS X's.

If using Eclipse:

Be sure to install Subclipse 1.6 (e.g. use the 1.6 update site) instead of the newest one.

If you follow the homebrew formula instructions to link the java library to OS X's Extensions, you do NOT have to edit your Eclipse.ini file to include the path there. For posterity, those commands are:

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Java/Extensions
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libsvnjavahl-1.dylib /Library/Java/Extensions/libsvnjavahl-1.dylib

HTH