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I have Go-daddy virtual private server. Everything is working fine but I want to update svn version 1.6.1 to 1.7.14.

I just wanted to know, Is there any impact to my server while updating svn?

Here is the URL which I have referred: How to upgrade SVN server from 1.6 to 1.7

Thanks & Regards,
Jignesh M. Mehta

Jignesh M. Mehta
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    What do you mean by "impact"? Obviously Subversion will be unavailable for the duration of the upgrade. – tripleee Jun 15 '18 at 10:31
  • @tripleee: thanks for the reply. Here, impact stands for any problem arise after updating svn, there will be c-panel installed and I have used svn repository on the public_html directory, so if I update svn directory then it will affect my source code or website? – Jignesh M. Mehta Jun 15 '18 at 14:47
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    Nope, pretty confident the answer to that is no. Check the SVN 1.7 release notes for backward-incompatible changes, though (but usually a backwards-breaking version would probably be called 2.0). – tripleee Jun 15 '18 at 18:23
  • @tripleee: Great! Thanks for the answer. I have seen the release notes and now I'm confident to update subversion after your confident answer :) – Jignesh M. Mehta Jun 18 '18 at 06:50

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There will be no impact as the svn client shouldn't be running continuously as a functional part of your website/server.

A 1.6-> 1.7 upgrade should be seamless; just be sure that you don't have any pending changes to commit (commit before upgrading). Run svn upgrade immediately afterwards on each working copy to update the metadata to the new format/structure.

However, you're upgrading to a version that's several years old. SVN is on 1.9.x now. I would recommend that you upgrade past 1.7 to 1.8 and then 1.9 so that you're on current software. At each stage, run svn upgrade on the working copies to get the metadata formats/structures updated to match.

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