version problem - backward compatibility subversion SVN

I've got my svn repository in a server开发者_StackOverflow社区 running svn 1.4.2 but I'm using svn 1.6.5 on Ubuntu 9.10 at home.

I found the svn will be corrupted when two the versions are different (at least in my case), and svn cleanup won't do the trick.

I'm not sure should I install svn 1.4.2 at home as well, or is there any way around it?

You should not have any problems using an SVN 1.6.5 client with a 1.4.2 repository. The only time you'll have problems is if you use two different SVN client versions.

Your working copy will be unusable by a 1.4.2 client once the 1.6.5 client has used it. That doesn't corrupt SVN though... it only affects the working copy (and it's not "corrupted", just maintained in such a way that the 1.4.2 client does not understand).