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I am using Intellij IDEA v13.1.5 on Windows (JDK1.7) and Subversion 1.8. I am getting the following error in Intellij (wondering if I need to downgrade) and if so, what is the best option to do so:

**URL**:
svn: E155021: E155021: This client is too old to work with the working copy at 'C:\projectName' (format 31). You need to get a newer Subversion client. For more details, see http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#working-copy-format-change
**Format**:
1.8
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unknown
ali haider
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You can configure IntelliJ to use your Command Line SVN client:

screen shot of preferences dialog of IntelliJ: Version Control > Subversion

Take care to use the path that points to a current installation of SVN on your system. On my OS X, /usr/bin/svn was 1.7, while I had a 1.8 installed via homebrew in /usr/local/bin/svn.

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According to this post subversion 1.8 should be supported in the version 13. Do you have upgraded SVN command line binaries installed ?

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  • using slicksvn but not working - moving to older version of slicksvn to see if that works out – ali haider Oct 21 '14 at 15:49
  • so the problem seems due the binaries that intelliJ idea is using. – dawez Oct 21 '14 at 15:55
  • yes - which is why I'm moving to older version of slicksvn – ali haider Oct 21 '14 at 16:01
  • simply moving to older version of slicksvn did not fix the issue. – ali haider Oct 21 '14 at 17:36
  • I guess that you would need only the binary command svn [not 100% sure as I am not using SVN for years at this point]. Idea should just use the svn binary command. Have a look at this [svn client binaries for windows](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613119/svn-client-binaries-for-windows) for possible clients. – dawez Oct 21 '14 at 18:06
  • thanks - appreciated. I have to use both svn ad git since older codebase is in svn (and no one transferred it over to git) – ali haider Oct 21 '14 at 18:51
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Issue went away when I downgraded my svn (tortoise or slick) to v1.6. IntelliJ did not complain about svn client version after that. I previously had svn client v1.8 which caused the issue with IntelliJ.

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