... issues with previous versions of the repository, so users had to dumptheir repository data using the previous version of Subversion, and load it into a freshly createdrepository with the new version ... 3690 for the Subversion protocol, so on a Unix-likesystem you can add lines to /etc/services like these (if they don't already exist):svn 3690/tcp # Subversion svn 3690/udp # Subversion And ... createdrepository with the new version of Subversion. Now, these types of schema changes haven'toccurred since Subversion& apos;s 1.0 release, and the Subversion developers promise not to forceusers...