Comments on: Subversion, Subversion – what client shall I pick?

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By: If you tried Subversive before, it’s time to try it again | Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:16:31 +0000

[…] who aren’t aware, Subversive is an Eclipse client for accessing Subversion. In March 2009, I blogged about both choices of Eclipse client: Subversive and […]

By: jeanne

jeanne — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:25:48 +0000

Gene,
“I use TortoiseSVN and Subclipse together all the time. I have never had a problem using both, even within the same transaction (e.g., TortoiseSVN to add the files, then commit with Subclipse, or vice versa).”

You’re right; this does work. I guess I’ll be using Subclipse rather than Subversive now. That way I can use it with Tortoise. Tagging isn’t as bad in Tortoise. I can navigate to the tags directory at least leaving me just the tag name to hand type. It’s just an extra step than CVS. I wish I could get Tortoise to remember the tag directory. I guess it can’t because you could be working with multiple repositories. Still, it’s the same relative path.

By: Luc

Luc — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:01:34 +0000

As far as stand-alone clients go, I really love SmartSVN’s interface. It’s very intuitive, works on any platform, and there’s file-browser integration on Windows (which I believe TortoiseSVN has to).

Alas, I’ve been using it for a while, and there have been bugs showing up regularly that force re-installs. Currently, it freezes on “querying cache…”, and removing the local application data or doing svn cleanup didn’t help.

Two years or so ago, I had bad experiences with Subclipse/Subversive, given my current frustration with SmartSVN, I’m going to give them another shot.

By: Lex Robin

Lex Robin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:17:03 +0000

We are using SmartSVN because it is very well thought, intuitive usable and works fine on all our development platforms, not just Windows. I can’t stand any IDE integration, because I don’t see the big picture.

By: jeanne

jeanne — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:56:26 +0000

Peter,
It appears the feature I care about is in professional. I’ll give foundation a shot though and see how it compares to Tortoise seeing how it doesn’t have that feature either. I’ll post back here after I’ve tried it a couple weeks.

Gene,
I’ll have to experiment with that more. Subversive didn’t seem happy when I tried. I’ll try it with Subclipse.

Pukkaone,
I may wind up going down that road. At the moment I’m still evaluating clients. The command line will be “if all else fails” option.

Valentijn,
The thing is that CVS is tag aware. Making it feel like a step backward from the client point of view.

By: Surya Suravarapu

Surya Suravarapu — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:24:34 +0000

Another nice feature in TortoiseSVN is nice diff of MS Word files (using Word’s tracking feature), not sure whether you used/need it.

By: valentijn

valentijn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:22:40 +0000

>Can compare file with “working copy” (last checked out) without connecting to network

subclipse can do the same.

>No tag awareness! When I want to commit a file, I need to think about copying the directory to the tags directory. This is a mental jump as I’m really just thinking I want to create a version – not about how Subversion data is stored. I also worry that it is too easy to accidentally create the version in the wrong place.

This is more a subversion problem, not really client dependent.

By: pukkaone

pukkaone — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:19:55 +0000

If you’re worried about making a mistake while creating a tag, then automate it in a script. For example, my Ant script defines a target which execs svn to create a tag, switch the working copy to the tag, and build the project.

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:09:25 +0000

“You can’t point to both Tortoise and an Eclipse plugin for the same directory.”

I use TortoiseSVN and Subclipse together all the time. I have never had a problem using both, even within the same transaction (e.g., TortoiseSVN to add the files, then commit with Subclipse, or vice versa).