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Asked: 2026-05-14T00:21:36+00:00

I’m running git 1.7 on Mac OSX, installed via Homebrew. I’m trying to use

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I’m running git 1.7 on Mac OSX, installed via Homebrew. I’m trying to use git svn to work with a Subversion server that requires Subversion 1.5 clients (a restriction enforced via a pre-commit hook.)

Running git svn --version reveals that as far as git is concerned, git svn is equivalent to svn v1.4.4.

I can’t establish whether git svn is a total clone of subversion, and thus needs to be updated to meet subversion v1.5 functionality, or if git is compiled against or just points to some version of subversion under the hood.

I’ve struggled finding anyone else trying to upgrade the version of git-svn, and I’m guessing this client version restriction is unusual, but I’m stuck with it (corporate environment.)

Is it possible to have git operate as svn 1.5?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m running git --version 1.6, and when I run git svn --version, I get git-svn version 1.6.5. 

    apple:mac-zfs alex$ git svn --version
git-svn version 1.6.6 (svn 1.6.5)
apple:.git alex$ git --version
git version 1.6.6
apple:mac-zfs alex$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.5 (r38866)
   compiled Oct 16 2009, 02:54:10

    Is it possible that installing a later version of Git or SVN will help? My guess is the latter.

    NB the /usr/bin/svn that I have comes from OSX 10.6.2, looks like in the com.apple.pkg.BSD package. It’s possible that an older version of SVN is in 10.5.8; you can download a universal one from http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#osx

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