I was getting the message: >This client is too old to work with working copy >’/Users/george/Documents/workspace/l2l’; please get a newer Subversion client

Every time I tried to use subversion in netbeans.

Thanks to some help from the developers, I found out what was going on…

Basically, I’d used macports (darwinports) to install svn 1.4.2 on my mac – it turns out that netbeans was picking up subversion in /usr/local/bin, wheras ports installs everything in /opt/local/bin.

Getting rid of this annoying error is a case of just updating your netbeans preferences and changing the svn path to wherever your svn 1.4.2 is located.