IntelliJ using external svn.exe even when option to use command-line client is switched off

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How do I force IntelliJ to use it's internal SVN library (svnkit?) rather than an external command-line client? It appears to be ignoring the setting in the options dialog.

Version is 2016.2.4

I had previously been using IntelliJ with the "Use command line client" option switched on. (Tools...Settings...Version Control....Subversion)

Wanted to check what the performance difference was using the internal SVN support, so I switched the "Use command line client" off, but IntelliJ has just ignored that. It's continuing to use the external svn.exe.

Even if I rename the external client to use it just complains that it can't use the external svn client!

Is something screwed up in the IntelliJ settings files?

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I'd recommend against using SVNKit. Why do you want to switch to SVNKit? - bahrep
Because when I start up my project, IntelliJ launches "svn.exe" 146 times (observed with a procmon capture), alternating between "svn info" and "svn status". That doesn't seem right to me. Adding more than a handful of files at a time takes an age. - David

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I re-read the documentation and realised the answer - the built-in IntelliJ SVN support (SVNKit) is only compatible with Subversion 1.7

My working copy format is 1.8, and my SVN server (and local command-line binaries) are 1.9.4, so it looks like I have to use the external command-line.

SVNKit (which is the bundled SVN library) also doesn't look particularly active. The last release (1.8.12) was January 2015.