Cornerstone 2 7 10 – Feature Rich Subversion Client

Preview of Versions SVN Client

• Cornerstone 2 7 10 – Feature Rich Subversion Clients
• Cornerstone 2 7 10 – Feature Rich Subversion Client Permissions

I've been looking forward to seeing a dedicated subversion client which is designed from the ground up as a Mac app. The Sofa guys teased us a while ago with an app called

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Versions, but it never actually surfaced — until now. I just got a chance to play around with a pre-release build.
(Keep in mind that is is pre-release software, and many things are likely to change before the 1.0 shipping release.)
Versions is the first practical solution I've seen for developers — web developers included — who have high standards for UI and don't have the patience or interest to learn the quirks of the subversion command line tools. For those folks, this is far better solution than making zip copies of your source folders with manual timestamps, particularly when you work within a team.

Versions takes standard UI concepts from Mail, iTunes, Finder, and many other Leopard-era apps, and applies them to subversion repositories. This is interesting not just because it puts version control into the hands of non-experts, but it also allows those who are relatively comfortable with svn to take advantage of better browsing tools and features they otherwise wouldn't know about.
Design
A source control app has specific requirements. The UI needs to be simple and clean so that the focus is on the project, not the tool itself. The workflow in Versions is oriented around the most common cases — adding repositories, checking out, submitting changes, browsing various versions, viewing file history, and reverting are all dead simple. In other words, you can be productive immediately. Versions doesn't attempt to invent new features as much as do the important and obvious things really well.
The developer must also be able to trust the tool by being able to verify what the tool is doing. Versions provides the Transcript view specifically for this need. Anything you do in the app accumulates in this log, which looks essentially the same as the output you'd see in the command line. Easy to copy-and-paste into emails and such.

Although you can use any standard SVN repository, you can also create your own local filesystem-based repository from right within Versions. This isn't a subversion server, but it does allow you to easily archive your files and track local changes without having to start up or connect to any services. The experts cringe, of course, at the idea of saving your changes locally, but it's a great solution for basic needs.
Public Repositories
In addition to tracking source changes within a team, Versions makes it far easier to keep tabs on open source projects. In the screenshots below, I can see the most recent commits to the public WebKit repository, followed by the complete history of the GMUserFileSystem.mm file from Google's MacFUSE project.

If you've never tried to browse svn projects via the command line or a web browser, believe me that this is a vast improvement over the usual experience.
Some Details
Versions is a collaboration between Sofa and a brand new company called Pico. Sofa is best known for the excellent Checkout point-of-sale app for Mac OS X, and was responsible for the visual design. Pico developed the actual engine of the app, which uses libsvn instead of simply wrapping the command line tools.
Now, certainly some of you are thinking that the svn command line tools work fine, and they do. I use them daily and they're pretty straightforward. But honestly, 'svn ls' isn't a great experience. They're good for basic check in and check out, but they can be incredibly tedious for anything else. Versions abstracts the details of all of that, and just allows you to browse the content.
There is also good SCM support built in Xcode 3, but that's part of a much larger application. As a dedicated tool, Versions orients its UI and feature set entirely around this particular set of tasks, separate from all of the existing requirements of Xcode as a whole.
So even if you have an existing solution, you can probably still improve your improve your process — particularly for browsing specific versions, running comparisons, and so on. Any time saved in this area is time that can go into actually writing code instead.
One More Thing
I'm excited to see this app ship because I think developers will finally start to see source control as a way to improve their process, not just another obstacle to shipping. And all of us should care about that because it means developers will ship better software on a shorter schedule.
I'm told Versions will be available to the general public very soon, but a specific date has not been set yet. You can sign up to notified when the beta is available.

Cornerstone 2 7 10 – Feature Rich Subversion Clients

Finally, there's one more feature that I'm not allowed to mention yet, but I suspect it will win over independent developers who are still on the fence.

Focus professional 1 11 0. A comparison of Subversion clients includes various aspects of computer software implementations of the client role using the client–server model of the Subversionrevision control system.

Descriptions[edit]

TortoiseSVN, a Windows shell extension, gives feedback on the state of versioned items by adding overlays to the icons in the Windows Explorer. Repository commands can be executed from the enhanced context menu provided by Tortoise.

Cornerstone is a GUI for Subversion written with Xcode for MacOS X.

SmartSVN provides a similar Explorer integration, but also can be used as a standalone SVN client for different platforms. SmartSVN is available in three different editions: A free Foundation edition with fewer features and two commercial editions called Professional and Enterprise with the full feature set.

Some programmers prefer to have a client integrated within their development environment. Such environments may provide visual feedback of the state of versioned items and add repository commands to the menus of the development environment. Examples of this approach include AnkhSVN, and VisualSVN for use with Microsoft Visual Studio, and Subversive^[1][2]for use with Eclipse. Delphi XE Subversion integration is built into the Delphi IDE.

It is common to expose Subversion via Webdav using the Apache web server. In this case, any Webdav client can be used, but the functionality provided this way may be limited. Alternative ways to serve Subversion include uberSVN and VisualSVN Server.

Subversion clients comparison table[edit]

Name	Programming language, toolkit	Operating system	License	Integration	Languages	Network protocols	Current version	Last release date	Server functionality	Visualization
AnkhSVN	C#, SharpSvn	Microsoft Windows	Apache License	Microsoft Visual Studio (all editions except Express)	English	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	2.6.12735	October 5, 2016; 4 years ago	No	Diff, blame, history, properties
Cornerstone	Xcode	macOS	Proprietary, free trials available	Standalone GUI	English	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	3.1	February 8, 2018; 2 years ago	No	Diff, blame, history, properties
CODESYS SVN	C#, SharpSvn	Microsoft Windows	proprietary, trials can be negotiated	SVN plugin for CODESYS V3	English, German	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	V4.1.0.2 (based on SVN 1.9.4)	November 3, 2016; 3 years ago	No	Diff, merge, log
eSvn	C++, Qt	Unix-like operating systems (GNU/Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris and others), Mac OS X and Windows	GPL	GUI, standalone (like WinCVS, Cervisia)	English	http, svn	0.6.12	For *nix OSs: July 16, 2007; 13 years ago.[3] For Windows: July 12, 2007; 13 years ago[4]	No	?
kdesvn	C++, Qt	Linux, Unix, Mac OS X	GPL	Konqueror, Dolphin, standalone	English	file, http, https, (k)svn, (k)svn+file, (k)svn+http, (k)svn+https, (k)svn+ssh	2.0.0	December 4, 2016; 3 years ago[5]	Yes	?
PixelNovel Timeline	C++	Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	Free if used with PixelNovel web storage, 30-day trial with commercial upgrade otherwise	Adobe Photoshop	English	svn	1.0	July 7, 2009; 11 years ago[6][7]	?	?
QSvn	C++, Qt	Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	GPL	GUI, standalone (like WinCVS)	English	0.8.3	July 26, 2009; 11 years ago	No	?
RabbitVCS	Python, GTK+	Linux	GPL	Nautilus, Thunar, Gedit, CLI	ca, cs, de, en, es, fa, fr, he, hr, it, ja, nb, nl, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sl, sv, zh_CN	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	0.17 [8]	June 23, 2017; 3 years ago[9]	?	?
RapidSVN	C++, wxWidgets	Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, many more	GPL	GUI, standalone	Unicode, many	0.12.1	June 28, 2012; 8 years ago	No	External
SubTile	XUL, Javascript	Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (Any with Xulrunner or Firefox)	GPL, Mozilla Public License, Apache License	GUI, standalone	English	http, https, svn, svn+ssh	0.2	May 3, 2016; 4 years ago[10]	No	Diff, merge, revision graph
SVN Notifier	C#	Microsoft Windows	GPL	GUI, standalone. It needs TortoiseSVN installed.	English	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	1.9.3	June 25, 2012; 8 years ago[11]	?	?
TortoiseSVN	C++, MFC	Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit)	GPL	Windows Shell (Explorer)	54 languages (including en)	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, svn+XXX	1.13.1	October 31, 2019; 11 months ago	Yes	Diff, merge, Revision Tree, blame
Trac	Python	Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows	Modified BSD	web-based	[31 languages][3]	file	1.2.4[12]	July 17, 2019; 14 months ago[13]	Yes	Log
Version Control for engineers	-	Windows	freeware	GUI, standalone	English	http, https, svn, file	0.20	November 10, 2016; 3 years ago[14]	No	Internal image diff, external diff, diff for MS Word doc, MS Visio VSD drawings, DWG and DXF drawings, Kompas CDW, commit logging
ViewVC	Python	http, https	'two-clause Berkeley-style'	web-based	English	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	1.1.23	November 4, 2014; 5 years ago[15]	?	Diff, annotation, blame, revision graph
VisualSVN	Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit)	proprietary	Microsoft Visual Studio (all editions except Express)	English	http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file	7.1.2	July 31, 2019; 14 months ago[16]	Yes	?
Xcode	Objective-C, Cocoa	macOS	Proprietary, free[17]	Xcode IDE	English	9.4.1 Support for SVN was dropped in Xcode 10	June 19, 2018; 2 years ago	?	?

Standalone Subversion clients comparison table[edit]

Client name	Free	Network protocols	Diff	Merge	Browse remote repository
Cornerstone	No	file, http, https, svn, svn+file, svn+http, svn+https, svn+ssh	Yes	Yes	Yes
eSvn	Yes	http, svn	?	?	?
kdesvn	Yes	file, http, https, (k)svn, (k)svn+file, (k)svn+http, (k)svn+https, (k)svn+ssh	Yes	Yes	Yes
QSvn	Yes	Yes	?	?
RapidSVN	Yes	internal	internal	Yes
SubTile	Yes	http, https, svn, svn+ssh	Yes	Yes	Yes

Cornerstone 2 7 10 – Feature Rich Subversion Client Permissions

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Cei, Ugo; Lucidi, Piergiorgio (2010). Alfresco 3 Web Services. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. n.p. ISBN9781849511537. Retrieved 2013-03-04. In Eclipse, for instance, you will have to install one of the existing Subversion plugins, such as Subversive [..]
2. ^http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/
3. ^eSvn - Browse /eSvn/0.6.12 at SourceForge.net
4. ^eSvn - Browse /eSvn/0.6.11 at SourceForge.net
5. ^Released Version 2.0.0 – Kdesvn project
6. ^Press Room - PixelNovel - innovative tools for Adobe Photoshop users, such as version control for Photoshop and a Photoshop plugin for exporting photos to FlickrArchived 2012-07-12 at Archive.today
7. ^PixelNovel Timeline Released - Press Release -PixelNovel - innovative tools for Adobe Photoshop users, such as version control for Photoshop and a Photoshop plugin for exportin..Archived 2012-07-13 at Archive.today
8. ^[1]
9. ^[2]
10. ^SubTile Project
11. ^http://svnnotifier.tigris.org/source/browse/*checkout*/svnnotifier/trunk/ReleaseNotes.txt
12. ^Trac Changelog
13. ^Trac Changelog
14. ^″Version Control for engineers″ page on Sourceforge
15. ^viewvc Documents & files:
16. ^VisualSVN | Version History
17. ^Xcode on the Mac App Store