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Is there any way to down-format a Subversion repository to avoid messages like this:
svn: Expected format '3' of repository; found format '5'
This happens when you access repositories from more than one machine, and you aren’t able to use a consistent version of Subversion across all of those machines.
Worse still, there are multiple repositories with various formats on different servers, and I’m not at liberty to upgrade some of these servers. ~~~
If you can’t use the same version of Subversion across all machines, then you should set up a server process (either svnserve or Apache) and access the repository only through the server. The server can mediate between different versions of Subversion; it’s only when you’re using direct repository access that you run into this issue.
If the server will be an older version than the current repository format (which I don’t recommend), then you’ll need to export the repository using the newer version and import it using the older version.