Disabling /usr/bin/svn to use brew installed svn

Question

I use Lion, and the svn /usr/bin/svn is 1.6 version. As I need to use subversion 1.7, I installed svn from brew to be installed in /usr/local/bin/svn.

How can I disable the svn* files so that I can use svn from brew?

Answer 1

When I needed to upgrade from SVN 1.6 to 1.7, I installed my built version (not using Homebrew or Macports, etc.) in /usr/local/bin and renamed all the old svn executables in /usr/bin to (executablename)-1.6.7.

So now which svn gives /usr/local/bin/svn and the old /usr/bin/svn is /usr/bin/svn-1.6.17.