Subclipse on Mac OS Lion shows "Unable to load default SVN client error"

Question

After updating Mac OSX Lion, I found that I could not use Subclipse. I keep getting this error:

Unable to load default svn client

Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

I am using Eclipse Indigo.

Answer 1

Have you tried downloading SVNKit from the Subclipse update site?

Go to Install New Software and select the Subclipse update site. Select the JNA and SVNKit library, as well as the SVNKit client adapter.

After that, change the interface from JavaHL to SVNKit in the settings → Command → SVN → SVN Interface.

Answer 2

For everyone who gets the error:

 Incompatible JavaHL library loaded. 1.7.x or later required. 

Using the latest Eclipse Indigo 3.7.1 standard and the latest CollabNet Subclipse plug-in (Collabnet Desktop 3.1.0 for Eclipse 3.5-3.7) for OS X, the problem is not the Subclipse plug-in files version, this is the actual version of Subversion that you installed. Collabnet does not yet offer 1.7 SVN package for OS X, you need to get it from WanDisco. This confused me for hours.

Answer 3

if you have a subquery version 1.8.x installed, you can also go to 1.6.x which solved the problem for me
repository here: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x

just delete everything related to higher versions of the subtitle (client adapter, etc.).

Answer 4

I had a similar problem when I tried to reinstall the subtitle after installing Lion. The subversion client that uses subclipse relies on a javahl modem, which you can usually get as a community release from collab.net. The problem is that the latest version only supports 10.6, and version 10.7 does not exist.

I decided that I needed to interact with the subversion repository through eclipse, switching from a plugin subquery to a subversion plugin that has a supported bridge. I know that this doesn't exactly answer how to make the subquery work, but it was an alternative that worked for me, and as far as I know, this is the only solution until the javahl package supporting 10.7 is available.

Answer 5

Open this file:

 sudo pico /System/Library/Core​Services/SystemVersi​on.plist 

change version to 10.6 wherever you see 10.7 set subversion back to 10.7

Elias