your svn client is too old error, how to fix it?

I'm fairly new to svn, and have installed the fink svn client for mac. I have used this for quite soe time, and suddenl开发者_JS百科y it tells me that my client is too old to browse this repository.

In between uses of the fink client, I have also used a GUI application called svnx, but now that I wanted to use the command line tool again, it keeps giving me this error, even after redownloading fink.

To fix the problem you need to refetch your repository from scratch using the client that you will use later on.

You can use this python script (change-svn-wc-format.py) to downgrade your local repository.

It's not a nice fix, but just making a new directory, and doing a checkout there worked fine. strange because I removed all files from the directory I tried to checkout into, (yes, also the hidden "." files)