Subversion 1.7

Recently I received a portage update to Subversion 1.7. Since this version uses a new working copy layout I was a bit sceptic about how much work upgrading to 1.7 would really be.

So far the update went really smooth. I upgraded the svn client and had to migrate (svn upgrade) the working copy. The working copy is significantly smaller after the migration:

SVN operations like running an update or reverting a lot of changes seem to be a bit faster. I can’t say if subversion in Eclipse behaves faster or not - haven’t my mind made up just yet.

I’ll leave the server part and all the related tools (Jenkins, Sventon etc.) for another post later.