Intellij idea subversion checkout error: `Cannot run program "svn"`

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JULIIncognito picture JULIIncognito · Dec 27, 2013 · Viewed 152k times · Source

I am using intellij idea 13.0. When I am trying to checkout from subversion I am getting error

Cannot load supported formats: Cannot run program "svn": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

How do I fix this?

Answer

Razvan picture Razvan · May 16, 2014

I solved this by uncheking the "Use command-line client" option from Subversion settings.

This works with version 1.6 and 1.7 only. See @Vic's answer for SVN version 1.8.

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