Jenkins invalid version of SVN working copy

Question

Our build server runs Jenkins 1.502 with Subversion plugin upgraded to version 1.45. This plugin uses svnkit-1.7.6-jenkins-1.jar.

Also we have SVN client 1.7.8 installed.

Jenkins successfully checks out source code from SVN repository. But when I go to workspace directory and try to run some svn command manually, it fails:

# cd /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/myproject/workspace/
# svnversion
svn: E155036: Working copy '/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/myproject/workspace' is too old (format 8, created by Subversion 1.4)

How do I solve this?

Answer 1

Try this

manage jenkins > configure system

look for a 'Subversion Workspace Version' pulldown - it's likely set to 1.4. change it to the latest version in the list.