Caveats and Warnings

Two big warnings:

1. Remember that nobody else can see your changes if you don't commit!

2. The most recent release of Subversion, v1.4, introduced an incompatible change in the format of the working copy. So, while v1.4 can read a working copy created with any version, versions 1.3 and earlier cannot read a working copy created with Subversion 1.4. Additionally, if you use the 1.4 client with a 1.3 working copy, it will update the working copy to the new format, making that working copy unusable by older clients.

   Upshot: The subversion client installed on the Solaris network is version 1.1.3, so it cannot read the new working copy format. (It'll talk to our server with no problems, though.) So, if you want a working copy in your Solaris home directory, make sure you don't use a newer client on it, otherwise it'll be unreadable by the default client. (This might come up if you mount your Solaris home directory on one of the College's Windows machines and use TortoiseSVN on that working directory, for example.)

   So be careful.