OS X SVN Client Softwares lists some Subversion client for Mac OS X both for GUI and CLI. Previously, we wrote about SVN and How SVN Works. The basic issue is that, unlike MS Windows, where Tortoise is almost the set standard as GUI tool for managing SVN, to date, there is no such really great tool – that is why this article on OS X SVN Client Softwares lists some give the user some options.
OS X SVN Client Softwares : The Command Line Tool
Follow the older guides – Fixing UNIX Commands After OSX 10.8 Updates and things like Syntax Highlighting in Vim inside iTerm2 for proper setup. As we are working with UNIX, basically these will work for Mavericks too, otherwise we could not use on our Mac! We usually use iTerm2 with Color Schemes. When we have installed Xcode Command Line Tools, SVN got installed. Else you needed to install from XCode GUI tool in this way :
Xcode > Preferences > Downloads > Command Line Tools > Install
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If you open Terminal and run this command :
1 | svn --version |
It will give you a detailed output. Obviously, it is not possible to write the usage here.
OS X SVN Client Softwares lists some Subversion client for Mac OS X both for GUI and CLI. We also added a kind of comparison. Previously, we wrote about SVN and How SVN Works. The basic issue is that, unlike MS Windows, where Tortoise is almost the set standard as GUI tool for managing SVN, to date, there is no such really great tool – that is why this article on OS X SVN Client Softwares lists some give the user some options. There is a nice book on SVN :
1 | http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.pdf |
OS X SVN Client Softwares : The GUI Tools
Obviously, among the OS X SVN Client Softwares; XCode is the official tool. But, for various practical purpose, it is not usable/difficult to use. There are two commercial tools named Cornerstone 2 and Versions. They are available via App Store plus on their website. Both has good list of Enterprise grade clients.
svnX is an open source SVN client and for a long time it was the best fully-featured native OS X client. SCPlugin is also an open-source client. It integrates with Finder and you can work with your source without loading a separate application. rapidsvn is a free tool as well. iSVN is a free software but in alpha version since 2010. There are some other tools like Mac SVN, Subversion Scripts for Mac OS X Finder – both can be found on sourceforge.net
To be very honest, except Cornerstone 2 and Versions; others are not very great but it is not great to pay for Free Software Development.
