Update – : Added vendor supplied information about iVersion: a basic iPhone based SVN Utility. (FYI: I uninstalled each package after reviewing it even if it meant having to reinstall later as in the instance of VisualSVN needing TortoiseSVN). Comments or requests for more info in certain areas will drive further updates as one of my goals is to continue to update past posts with current information and/or commentary.įinally, I am NOT an SVN expert (most of my work has been with the Microsoft stack in terms of SC) but I kind of think that is a bonus as I am familiar enough with SVN to know what works for me and hopefully should work for the average developer with a general understanding of SVN. I am NOT going to go through every feature but I am going to touch on the features I find important…at first. Since SF supports SVN I figured this was a good fit. In order to run through some basic features of the SVN clients I decided to hook up to a C# source forge project called Feedling (a desktop RSS reader with a plugin architecture). I can’t stress enough on how valuable the documentation is and most of it (even the book) seems well written – it’s just a lot!
No matter which SVN client you use (especially if you choose the command line) you would be much better off reading the O’Reilly SVN book (free online at: Red Bean Book). What I have done is compile only what I consider to be the best SVN clients along with a few extras (see Bottom) and review them based on some general common factors such as ease of use, feature implementation of Subversion itself, Operating System(s), and which IDE’s, if any, the client integrates with.
So, this is such a massively reviewed area of software that I hesitate to repeat all the info out there already.
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