Difference of built in version control

[Tampa_Rob]

What is the advantage of not using the built in version control
DreamWeaver CS4 and using the SubWeaver extension?

We are trying to finalize out approach to using SVN and DreamWeaver.

After reading up on the built in version, using third party apps like
Tortoise and SubEclipse can cause problems.

Thanks,
Rob

[matthew...@gmail.com]

As DW CS4 now features SVN integration, this extension is much less
relevant than before. However, I have found a few cases where users
have reported that adobe's implementation fell short of the
capabilities offered by tortoise (and therefore subweaver).

http://blog.creacog.co.uk/2008/11/03/dreamweaver-cs4-subversion-and-site-synchronize-two-cautions/

"Having found the documentation, it is clear that Dreamweaver’s
subversion integration really does not extend to committing deletions
to the repository. They need to be done either manually or through a
3rd party tool as I describe above. Pretty unfriendly for anyone new
to subversion and quite different from the workflows used within
dreamweavers for sunchronistion between local and remote sites for
instance. Personally I think the documentation should explain this
fact much far prominently as well as describing in more detail how
manage deletion and renaming if connected to subversion."

http://www.highdots.com/forums/macromedia-dreamweaver/subversion-dw-integration-265553.html

"So, if I understand the situation correctly, you can use Subversion
1.5
with Dreamweaver CS4 as long as the only communication with the server
is
through Dreamweaver or an older client. Once you touch any file with a
1.5
client, you need to convert the meta data back to the old format.

That strikes me as being a very unsatisfactory setup, since Subversion
1.5
was released many months before Dreamweaver CS4. It makes the
integration
less than optimal."

"Is this a joke? You seriously can't use a different version of the
tortoise
client or you'll corrupt the ability for a dreamweaver user to access
the
repository?

I don't see how this is a viable solution for any team web development
environment."




The good thing about using Subweaver is that you get exactly the same
capabilities as you have in Tortoise, just within the IDE. And since
tortoise gets updated to the latest builds of svn just about as fast
as anything else, you'll never be out of date. Plus you have the
source code available, so you can make changes or add new features
whenever you want.

Note: I haven't actually used CS4 so I'm only going off what others
have said. I have, however, tried both the hard to find nearlygeek
extension (SVN4DW) and the commercial Grafx Software offering (SVN for
Dreamweaver) and found them to be lacking enough to confidently say
that Subweaver is the best extension based offering for integrating
SVN and DW.