What svn (subversion) client do you use for OS X?

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Noah

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Jan 11, 2007, 12:57:52 AM1/11/07
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I recently switched to a mac and I've been keeping all of my projects
in subversion and I don't have a good GUI client. What do you
recommend? I tried svnX but it did not work properly and RapidSVN
wasn't very usable and ZigVersion didn't like how large my repository
was (15,000+ files)

Noah

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Jan 10, 2007, 11:36:34 PM1/10/07
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I'm a switcher... but I'm also an svn user, and I got svn installed ok
using the darwin ports but I need a decent GUI for svn. I was using
TortoiseSVN on Windows and it was great.

This is something of an issue for me as I have over 15,000 project
files under version control and as it stands now they're not much use
to me on my new Mac... uh oh.

What subversion GUI do you recommend for OS X?

I've tried svnx and rapidsvn and neither was really very good.

Noah

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Jan 11, 2007, 7:50:47 PM1/11/07
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Anyone? Maybe we could make a list and I'll try them all out...

RapidSVN
SvnX
ZigVersion

what else?

Joseph Heck

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Jan 11, 2007, 7:55:04 PM1/11/07
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the command line one?
(svn)

bedros

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Jan 11, 2007, 7:58:52 PM1/11/07
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try esvn; they claim Mac OSX compatibility (as well as Linux and
windows) using QT lib.

http://esvn.umputun.com/

Stefan Foulis

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Jan 11, 2007, 8:00:54 PM1/11/07
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I use eclipse with subclipse for svn and pydev for python support...
everything nicely integrated and in one place.

James Bennett

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Jan 11, 2007, 9:37:06 PM1/11/07
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On 1/11/07, Noah <noahab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone? Maybe we could make a list and I'll try them all out...

I use a combination of the command-line client and Emacs' built-in
version-control support (which lets me check in directly from Emacs
once I'm done with a file).

--
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
-- George Carlin

Rob Hudson

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Jan 11, 2007, 11:27:32 PM1/11/07
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There's also SCPlugin which is going through a re-write at the moment.
You might have some success with their old version, however.

http://scplugin.tigris.org/

Noah

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Jan 12, 2007, 12:39:12 AM1/12/07
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Not all of my files are Python, in fact probably only 500 or so of the
15,000 files I'm versioning are actually py files. The rest are
graphics, data and resources of other kinds.

Noah

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Jan 12, 2007, 12:40:58 AM1/12/07
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Noah

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Jan 12, 2007, 12:43:23 AM1/12/07
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I could hope there is a rewrite... after all there hasn't been a news
update since 2004...

Noah

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Jan 12, 2007, 12:44:10 AM1/12/07
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Sorry, I hit post twice.

张成

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Jan 12, 2007, 1:08:27 AM1/12/07
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在 2007-1-11,下午12:36,Noah 写道:

>
> I'm a switcher... but I'm also an svn user, and I got svn installed ok
> using the darwin ports but I need a decent GUI for svn. I was using
> TortoiseSVN on Windows and it was great.
>
> This is something of an issue for me as I have over 15,000 project
> files under version control and as it stands now they're not much use
> to me on my new Mac... uh oh.
>
> What subversion GUI do you recommend for OS X?

I am using svnX on Mac (primarily) and TortoiseSVN on Windows (from
time to time).

>
> I've tried svnx and rapidsvn and neither was really very good.

You shouldn't expect svnX to provide you with same UI experience as
TortoiseSVN. Their work-flows are quite different. TortoiseSVN is
quite intuitive for Windows UI, but if you take some time to learn
svnX's way of thinking, you might find it's better to use.


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Rob Hudson

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Jan 12, 2007, 11:28:21 AM1/12/07
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If you visit their "Documents & Files" section you can see there have
been some updates as recent as December 2006. But they sound
experimental. But it looks like progress is being made...

Noah

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Jan 12, 2007, 6:35:07 PM1/12/07
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have you found svnx to be unstable?

张成

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Jan 16, 2007, 10:43:59 AM1/16/07
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在 2007-1-13,上午7:35,Noah 写道:

>
> have you found svnx to be unstable?

Not at all in my usage case, it has been very stable. Don't remember
it ever crash on me. :-)
BTW: I am using 0.9.9.

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