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I have to update Subversion on my system because I'm working with a server which is running the version 1.7 and this stops me to make commits.

This is the error it returns:

$ svn commit
svn: The path '...' appears to be part of a Subversion 1.7 or greater working copy.  
Please upgrade your Subversion client to use this working copy.

Currently I'm running the version 1.6.18

$ svn --version
svn, version 1.6.18 (r1303927)
   compiled Aug  4 2012, 19:46:53

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

I read this question in which the user asked how is it possible to install the version 1.7. They said that this is possible through MacPorts. However I'm using Homebrew as package manager. It provides Subversion 1.7.7

$ brew info subversion
subversion: stable 1.7.7
http://subversion.apache.org/
Depends on: pkg-config, neon, sqlite, serf
Not installed

However I suppose that having two SVN version installed could bring to some conflicts. Is that true? How can I manage it without removing the Xcode command line tools?

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No, there shouldn't be a problem having 2 different versions of Subversion installed at the same time. MacPorts and Homebrew will install their executable binaries to a different path.

The version which actually gets executed when executing svn in the shell depends on your $PATH environment variable, which contains a list of directories to search through, in order.

If your $PATH variable lists the directory where Homebrew installs binaries first (I believe this is the default configuration), svn will use the more recent version.

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  • Let's suppose that the Hombrew bin path is listed before the one used by Xcode Command Line Tools. Does XCode will use the Homebrew version? Or it will continue to use its own?
    – Maverik
    Oct 18, 2012 at 15:25
  • Actually my $PATH is /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin. Hence the Xcode subversion is used. Is it a problem changing the order?
    – Maverik
    Oct 18, 2012 at 16:33
  • @lucaghera, have you installed Homebrew and Subversion via Homebrew already?
    – Gerry
    Oct 18, 2012 at 16:52
  • Yep, I've alreay done it!
    – Maverik
    Oct 18, 2012 at 16:54
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    I'm not sure where Homebrew installs svn (/opt/bin?), but you can safely add the path before the others.
    – Gerry
    Oct 18, 2012 at 16:57

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