Installation

An old version of Subversion is shipped with MacOS X. See the open source section of Apple's web site for more information.

  1. Make sure apr-util is installed, if not install it either with ports or brew.
    Only one package system must be used, either ports or brew.
  2. Download selected package:
  3. To install apr-util run:
    • Ports: sudo port install apr-util
    • Brew: brew install apr-util
  4. Download the Subversion package from: https://s3.amazonaws.com/assembla-binaries/Subversion-OSX/subversion-1.10.0.pkg
  5. Double click and follow the installer instructions to install the subversion package. It will install in /opt/subversion/, so it would not conflict with an existing system install.
  6. In order to use Assembla Subversion client path should be updated: export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH
  7. Test if you are using SVN client from opt location:
    $ which svn 
    /opt/subversion/bin/svn
    
    $ svn --version
    svn, version 1.10.0-dev (under development)
       compiled Oct 23 2017, 04:48:59 on x86_64-apple-darwin16.7.0
  8. Ready to work!