Useful Subversion Tools

Question

There are many great tools that integrate with Subversion and do some really neat things. Ive tried a number of them, but in the end only regularly uses the following:

• Tortoise (the ubiquitous explorer plugin)
• Visual SVN (IDE Integration for VS)
• Visual SVN Server (Lightweight SVN Server)
• SVN Monitor (storage monitoring)

What else is there that you find truly innovative or useful for interacting with Subversion?

Answer 1

In addition to some previous comments:

• TeamCity has excellent Subversion support in terms of building tools other than CC.NEt and Hudson.
• AnkhSVN with Visual Studio (recent builds look pretty good)
• Atlassian's Fisheye is a great way to control and view source code / history / revisions with neat statistics and support for code reviews, etc.

Answer 2

StatSVN is a really cool, albeit gentle, tool to provide information about your repo and record statistics; it's really just a porn schedule :)

Here are some sample graphs.

Answer 3

Trac is a tracker with SVN integration. I really like viewing the timeline, where you can quickly see all the changes to quickly view the code.

Answer 4

When writing or editing text in Microsoft Office, I focus on my task. Like most people, I feel uneasy when I have to interrupt my work for some maintenance. However, keeping a history of document changes in Subversion can be considered good practice.

For comparison, you need to take up to 5 steps to update the document through TortoiseSVN:

• close the document;
• open a folder in Windows Explorer;
• execute the “Update” command through the context menu,
• Wait for it to complete, close the TortoiseSVN window,
• reopen the document.

I can bring all these steps together with one click using MagnetSVN for Microsoft Office.
This is a real time saver!

Answer 5

On Mac, I like Versions . Other people prefer Cornerstone . Both are good SVN clients with a great interface.

Answer 6

I just ended up using Subclipse to stay in my IDE.

Answer 7

The svn protocol handler is also quite useful: it allows you to view svn: // repositories in Internet Explorer.

Answer 8

I use Commit Monitor to receive notifications about commits made by other developers.

I need to take a look at SVN Monitor, it looks like it is doing the same, but it has more features than Commit Monitor.

Answer 9

I used Synchro for Windows and Mac. It works great, especially if you have developers on different platforms. I think that the license allows one user to use it on several platforms (I am fully developing on Mac and testing on Linux and Windows).

Versions is a Mac client with a nice interface.

Answer 10

I use kdesvn as a linux client, does the job.

Answer 11

I think some of the hook scripts that are available are quite useful for customization in your repository. For example, I use binding for pre-commit to ensure the minimum length of the log message (some of our developers tended to make empty log messages) and a hook after commit to send email to the mailing list.

I also think that RepoGuard looks pretty interesting, but have not yet had the opportunity to use it.

Answer 12

SVNPlot Creates Great Statistics From Your Subversion Repository

Answer 13

Winmerge is a pretty good Diff tool that integrates well with the svn turtle. I like it better than the default diff tool that comes with the turtle.

Answer 14

SvnQuery is very useful if you need to search the contents of a repository.

Answer 15

Version Control Connection Integration Servers do wonders for your build process. Two of my favorites are CruiseControl.NET and Hudson - but there are many there. Please note that both of these functions work with SVN.

Answer 16

Some apps for accessing websites for subversion. You can find the comparison here: http://geekswithblogs.net/flanakin/articles/CompareSubversionWebTools.aspx

Answer 17

I really like SyncroSVN (I use it on a Mac). Ease of use, native diff and SSH support.

Answer 18

I agree with Peter D and Gabriel Florit; in Eclipse you get gui and you can easily navigate to svn repositories, delete or rename or something else. And with Hudson, I have a check on my projects, creating them and running unit tests.

I really haven't studied it, but Maven has plugins for subversion. I use Maven to create and deploy, but have not used it with the subversion plugin.

Answer 19

I would add a regular Subversion command-line client (e.g. from SlikSvn ). By far the easiest way to script and / or automate subversion commands.

And perhaps SharpSvn if you need more scripting capabilities or when you want to integrate Subversion support into your own .Net application. (AnkhSVN, Svn Monitor, and several other tools are built on top of the SharpSvn binding).

Answer 20

commandlinefu made my life easier, I needed some weird statistics, just install cygwin, re on Windows.