Monday, May 26, 2014

Updating Intellij Idea to support svn 1.7 client

When you upgrade xcode on your Mac, it installs svn 1.7 client which changes the cache file structure of svn. This breaks Intellij Idea 10.5 subversion integration. Intellij is not going to support svn 1.7 for Idea versions 10.5 and below but there is a work-around taken from one of the responses to the blog at http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2011/12/subversion-17-support-update/
What we need to do is:
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You need to include all *.jar files from the SVN Kit Standalone Version:http://www.svnkit.com/org.tmatesoft.svn_1.7.5-v1.standalone.zip, removing jna.jar, and svnkit.jar from the plugin lib (IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 plugins:svn4idea)
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This works beautifully and kudos to Mark Celano for this life saver tip.