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Probably blacklist SVN 1.4 as too old?
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mp1635: Is anybody using arcanist with SVN 1.4.2? I am having problems doing arc diff; says invalid option --depth

We should check when --depth was added and set an SVN minimum version at whatever version that was. 1.4.2 is ~9 years old.

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Looks like it was added in 1.5:

https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#sparse-checkouts

...so let's set the minimum version to 1.5.

We could technically rewrite arc to not use --depth empty (it doesn't work for newly added directories, anyway), but I've seen a total of one user with SVN this old so far so this is probably not worthwhile.