what's your preferred subversion client? svn

[jrjazzman]

Coming from Windows, I'm apparently very spoiled by TortoiseSVN. I'm curious to know what everyone is running. Here are my experiences so far:

RapidSVN - Got this from the ubuntu repository. Seemed to be very buggy, did not parse the svn repository contents correctly, and was clugy overall. Tried to install latest version via tarball, but couldn't get the make to complete.

esvn - looks ok, but seems to be buggy as well. When I open it it repeats some message ("get files ...") over and over in the status window.

Subclipse - Seems pretty nice. I have to use this for all my svn needs (even non-eclipse projects) since it's the only svn client I could get to work, other than the command line client.

I have not tried the Nautilus svn scripts that are out there, although I'm very curious to know if they work. This would be ideal, and similar in functionality and integration to Tortoise.

[cwaldbieser]

Coming from Windows, I'm apparently very spoiled by TortoiseSVN. I'm curious to know what everyone is running. Here are my experiences so far:

RapidSVN - Got this from the ubuntu repository. Seemed to be very buggy, did not parse the svn repository contents correctly, and was clugy overall. Tried to install latest version via tarball, but couldn't get the make to complete.

esvn - looks ok, but seems to be buggy as well. When I open it it repeats some message ("get files ...") over and over in the status window.

Subclipse - Seems pretty nice. I have to use this for all my svn needs (even non-eclipse projects) since it's the only svn client I could get to work, other than the command line client.

I have not tried the Nautilus svn scripts that are out there, although I'm very curious to know if they work. This would be ideal, and similar in functionality and integration to Tortoise.

kdesvn - it integrates well with konqueror, but I like using the stand-alone client. I like using Kompare as the diff tool, too.

I also like using the command-line client. For most tasks, it is sufficient for my needs, though I am no fan of reading unified diffs.

[skymt]

I like the official CLI client. Subclipse sure looks nice, though. I'll probably wind up using it if I ever have a major Java project.

[rickbeton]

Coming from Windows, I'm apparently very spoiled by TortoiseSVN. I'm curious to know what everyone is running. Here are my experiences so far:

RapidSVN - Got this from the ubuntu repository. Seemed to be very buggy, did not parse the svn repository contents correctly, and was clugy overall. Tried to install latest version via tarball, but couldn't get the make to complete.

esvn - looks ok, but seems to be buggy as well. When I open it it repeats some message ("get files ...") over and over in the status window.

Subclipse - Seems pretty nice. I have to use this for all my svn needs (even non-eclipse projects) since it's the only svn client I could get to work, other than the command line client.

I have not tried the Nautilus svn scripts that are out there, although I'm very curious to know if they work. This would be ideal, and similar in functionality and integration to Tortoise.

I found this thread having asked the same question myself.

I use Subclipse a lot. It is good, but it's only useful to Eclipse users and I can't recommend it as a general SVN client.

As a general-purpose SVN client, SmartSVN looks promising - I've just been trying out the SmartSVN Foundation version (free as in free beer). It feels a bit like WinCVS to use (albeit it looks quite different and the SVN paradigm is of course different from CVS). It isn't open source and the Pro version is not cheap (IMO) but I expect the Foundation version will be useful to me.

Regards,
Rick

[pmasiar]

I use pysvn workbench - added bonus it is multiplatform, same on windows

[rickbeton]

I use pysvn workbench - added bonus it is multiplatform, same on windows

Thanks for the suggestion - I've just given it a try. Seems competent enough.

Although I managed to cause a few stacktraces to appear in the console pane, it didn't crash horribly or anything.

FWIW, SmartSVN is multi-platform too (actually, I've only tried it on Windowz and CentOS). Both GUIs provide a good feature set. It's good to have a reasonable choice.

Rick

[pmasiar]

For me, pysvn workbench dealbreakers are:

• it is in python, so if anything will ge horribly wrong, I may contemplate to fix it. Note that I never needed to.
• it is maintained as part of pysvn - python bindings to SVN, so I may reasonable expect it to survibe and be compatible with changing versions of SVN.

[neoflight]

I am interested to know too...
in fact i had started a thread on the same and got some input...

a nice link was provided in post #11 of that thread ...very useful...

More input are welcome and appreciated...either in this thread or the thread in that link...

[anthro398]

RapidSVN.

[kiddo]

meld is an awesome tool, I use it all the time. While it can do all the SVN manipulations, I still do them all in the command line. It's strange, since I'm usually a GUI guy, I guess becoming a programmer is transforming me