OSX Leopard SVN client outdated – Komodo
Recently in a middle of a debugging frenzy, I thought I would up the ante and use some more powerful tools. Of course, most of the time all you need is CLI and a nice text editor. Textmate, for life. So the said extra juice is provided from the latest offering from ActiveState. Komodo IDE is great cross-platform fun, so it seems like a great fit. Oh, did I mention their editor is free (and doesn’t suck)?
Meanwhile, I’m excited to fire up an Xdebug session. I drop my svn repo into the project, done. Wrong, it barfs up an error svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client
Looks like there is a different format in the way that local working copies are stored for SVN 1.5, which Leopard does not have installed. OK, I’ll just grab the latest update from Apple. Wrong. CollabNet to the rescue for putting together a separate universal binary.
Go grab it: http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/community.
The new version is installed in /opt, so go ahead and add it to your path. Easier yet, just point Komodo IDE to the new bin directory.
SVN Binary Location
Now go forth and watch the glorious repo status icons populate, sweet!