How about this, you wake up in the morning and decided to resume development (I know this sounds sad considering today is 31st of Dec), you type svn update and you get the error:
$ svn update svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client
So this is what my development setup looks like, I run a vm of JeOS and mount it on my mac using macfusion. So I have access to my code on both via ssh and via terminal. I got the above error as I accidentally did this update on the host machine side which had svn version 1.6.5 running where as on my vm I was still running 1.4.6. So searching for a couple of mins on the internet, I managed to update my version of svn on JeOS (which is actually another version ubuntu but for servers). I am documenting the steps below just in case anyone else might find it useful.
Open the sources.list and update it with the new source.
$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
and add the following two lines at the bottom
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu hardy main
hardy can be replaced by your version ubuntu, I am still on ubuntu as its just a development server with the latest version of apache, mysql and it works very well for me, so no reason to upgrade yet. Also JeOS is available on the not so latest version of ubuntu anyway.
Add the related key signature
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 413576CB
413576CB is the signing key on the home page of the project https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/subversion-1.6.
Signing key:
1024R/413576CB
Fingerprint:
026491A5DD081BDC6CDFC0DE6298AD34413576CB
Now all you need to do is update your aptitude cache and upgrade the version of svn.
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get --reinstall install subversion
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