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Subversion has its own command-line client. Other clients are available, which are perhaps easier or more intuitive to use in different scenarios. Often, people have several clients installed, and use each for different tasks[citation needed].

TortoiseSVN is a Windows shell extension, which 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. SmartSVN provides a similar Explorer integration, but also can be used as a standalone SVN client for different platforms.

Some programmers prefer to have a client integrated within their development environment. Again, visual feedback of the state of versioned items is provided, and repository commands are added to the menus of the development environment. Examples of this approach are Agent SVN, AnkhSVN, Unified SCC and VisualSVN for use with Microsoft Visual Studio, and Subclipse for use with Eclipse.

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 is limited. An alternative is WebSVN written in PHP or VisualSVN Server, which offers a wider functionality.

Descriptions of Clients

Agent SVN is an implementation of the (MS-SCCI) for the Subversion version control. The plug-in allows files to be added, removed, checked out, checked in and reverted without leaving the IDE. File differences, status and history can also be viewed from within the IDE.

blsvn is a small wrapper for the Windows command-line Subversion client. It lets you define abbreviations for repository directories you frequently use and greatly reduces the typing needed to refer to and traverse repository directories from the command-line.

KDESVN A feature-rich client with great history and revision views, annotated code views showing who changed each line of code and when it was changed, and 3D graphical views of branching and merging among trees. Written in C++ with Qt, but using KDE libraries (which are somewhat troublesome to get on Windows).

RabbitVCS A graphical front-end for version control systems available on Linux, adding Subversion functionality into the file managers Nautilus and Thunar and provides plugin for Gedit editor, based around the feature set of TortoiseSVN on Windows. RabbitVCS also supports the Git and promises to give support for other version control systems like Bazaar and CVS.

SVNCOM Not actually a client itself, it is actually an API built over SVN’s native C API. It uses COM objects that make it easier to develop Windows based applications or scripts which use SVN. One COM object represents an SVN Client, the other represents an SVN Administrator. The COM objects make it easy to automate tasks in the Windows Scripting Environment or .NET

SVNFlash Web client for Subversion written in Java (server side) and Flash Player (client side). It has an amazing user interface closer to a desktop than a legacy web application. It provides FULL revision graphs, user and project activity statistics, compare directories (list and tree view result), compare files, blame files, explore repositories asynchronously, edit properties... It is also capable of displaying most popular documents formats like MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenOffice, PDF, and more (without install any 3rd program/plugin on client side) and highlights +20 programming languages. Moreover SVNFlash automatically parses Subversion commit messages and identifies possible tracker issues displaying those relationships in many svn views.

WebSVN Offering an online view of a repository, history, and commit comments, as well as opening code in a syntax colored view. The code view is not editable, at least in the demo. Also allows you to view the difference between versions of a file or directory. Written in PHP and opens in a browser.

iF.SVNAdmin Web-based front end GUI to manage user and group permissions on the different repositories. It works completely on the SVNAuthFile and comes with an integration module for LDAP authentication (Synchronizes an LDAP structure with the SVNAuthFile). It also makes it possible to define project managers for different repositories and sub-paths of repositories.

Subversion clients comparison matrix

Name Programming language / Toolkit Operating system License Integration Multilingual Network protocols Current version Last release date Server functionality Visualization
Agent SVN[1] C/C++ Microsoft Windows proprietary Any MS-SCCI compatible IDE for example Microsoft Visual Studio, Zeus etc. English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.30 ? ? ?
AnkhSVN[2] C# / SharpSvn Microsoft Windows Apache License Microsoft Visual Studio (all editions except Express) http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 2.1.8420.8 ? ? ?
Subversion branch support for Bazaar[3] Python / C Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, many more GPL v3 Bazaar http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.0.1 ? ? ?
blsvn[1] C++ Microsoft Windows MIT command-line wrapper http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 0.1 ? No ?
Cascade[2] Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows proprietary Windows Shell (Explorer), file system driver http, https, svn 1.2.0.1069 ? ? ?
Cornerstone [3] Objective-C / Cocoa Mac OS X proprietary GUI, standalone file, http, https, svn and svn+ssh 2.0.3 November 18, 2010 (2010-11-18) ? ?
eSvn[4] C++ / Qt Linux, Unix, Mac OS X GPL GUI, standalone (like WinCVS, Cervisia) http, svn 0.6.12 July 13, 2007 (2007-07-13) No ?
iF.SVNAdmin PHP Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows GPLv2 web-based English, German, Chinese 1.5.1 ? ? ?
iVersion[5] Objective-C/C iPhone OS 3.0 Proprietary GUI, standalone English svn, http, https 1.2 ? ? ?
kdesvn[6] C++ / Qt Linux, Unix, Mac OS X GPL Konqueror, Dolphin, standalone file, http, https, (k)svn, (k)svn+file, (k)svn+http, (k)svn+https, (k)svn+ssh 1.5.0 September 14, 2010 (2010-09-14) Yes ?
naughtysvn[7] C / GTK Linux, etc. GPL Nautilus 0.0.1 ? ? ?
PBSCC[4] C++ Microsoft Windows Freeware SVN Plugin for PowerBuilder English svn ? August 1, 2009 (2009-08-01) ? ?
PixelNovel Timeline[5] C++ Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Free if used with PixelNovel web storage, Trial with commercial upgrade otherwise Adobe Photoshop English svn 1.0 ? ? ?
PushOk SVN SCC[6] Microsoft Windows proprietary Any MSSCCI-compatible program (Microsoft Visual Studio and other programs) 1.6.3.1 ? ? ?
Qct (Qt commit tool)[8] Python / Qt Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows GPL 1.7 ? ? ?
QSvn[7] C++ / Qt Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows GPL GUI, standalone (like WinCVS) 0.8.3 July 26, 2009 (2009-07-26) No ?
RabbitVCS[9] 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 0.14 January 4, 2011 (2011-01-04) ? ?
RapidSVN[10] C++ / wxWidgets Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, many more GPL GUI, standalone Unicode, many 0.12 October 14, 2009 (2009-10-14) No (External)
SCPlugin[11] Mac OS X X/MIT License Finder integration 0.8.2 February 17, 2010 (2010-02-17) ? ?
sdSVN[8] Java Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows GPL GUI, standalone, Java Web Start http, https 1.0-SNAPSHOT ? ? ?
SmartSVN[9] Java Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (Any with a 1.5 or higher JRE) Trial with commercial upgrade or free 'Foundation' edition GUI, standalone, Finder and Windows Shell (Explorer) integration http, https, svn, svn+ssh 6.6.2 ? Yes ?
Subclipse[12] Java Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows EPL Eclipse http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file [10] 1.6.10 ? ? Diff, Merge
Subcommander[13] C++ / Qt Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows GPL GUI, standalone en, de, zh_CN http, https, svn, file 2.0.0b5 September 13, 2009 (2009-09-13) Yes ?
SubdiverSVN[14] GTKmm Linux Open Source Nautilus, Thunar http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 0.1-2 ? ? ?
Subversive[11] Java Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows EPL Eclipse http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file [12] 0.7.8.I20091023-1300 ? ? ?
sventon[15] Java Any with a 1.5 or higher JRE Open Source web-based en, sv http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 2.1.4 ? ? ?
SVN for Dreamweaver[13] C++ / JavaScript Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X Trial with commercial upgrade Adobe Dreamweaver Extensions http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 3.0.1 ? ? ?
SVN WorkBench[16] Python / wxWidgets Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Apache License 1.7.2 ? ? ?
SVN-Monitor [17] C# Microsoft Windows Free GUI, requires TortoiseSVN installed, standalone http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.3.3.224 ? ? ?
SVNCOM[14] Active-X Control / Com Object Microsoft Windows Open Source IIS / Windows Scripting Host http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, com 1.6.3.1 ? ? ?
svnX[15] Mac OS X GPL GUI 0.9.13 ? ? ?
Syncro SVN[18] Java Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (Any with a 1.5 or higher JRE) Paid "Named-User" license required (free trial available) GUI, standalone en, de, fr, jp, it, nl http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 5.0 ? ? Revision Graph, Diff
TamTam SVN SCC[16] Microsoft Windows Commerce, proprietary Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 1.2.24 ? ? ?
TkCVS[17] Tcl / Tk Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows GPL 8.2 ? ? ?
TortoiseSVN[19] C++ / MFC Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit) GPL Windows Shell (Explorer) 36 languages http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, svn+XXX 1.6.11 October 2, 2010 (2010-10-02) Yes Diff, Merge, Revision Tree
Trac[20] Python Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Modified BSD web-based [31 languages][21] file 0.13 June 17, 2010 (2010-06-17) Yes Log
Unified SCC[18] Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit) proprietary; Freeware version is available for members of the active open source project Any MSSCCI-compatible program (Microsoft Visual Studio and other programs) 1.0.6 ? ? ?
Versions[22] Objective-C / Cocoa Mac OS X proprietary GUI, standalone http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.0.9 ? ? ?
VisualSVN[19] Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit) proprietary Microsoft Visual Studio (all editions except Express). 2.0.1 ? Yes ?
WebSVN[23] PHP Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows GPL web-based > 25 languages 2.3.1 ? ? ?
Xcode[24] Objective-C / Cocoa Mac OS X Included with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Xcode IDE 3.2.3 ? ? ?
ZigVersion[25] Objective-C / Cocoa Mac OS X Freeware with commercial upgrade GUI, standalone English http, https, svn, file 1.2.3 ? ? ?

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References

  1. ^ http://code.google.com/p/blsvn/
  2. ^ http://www.conifersystems.com/cascade/
  3. ^ http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone/
  4. ^ http://dm.char.com.ua/pb/pbscc/pbscc.htm
  5. ^ http://www.pixelnovel.com/timeline
  6. ^ http://pushok.com/soft_svn.php
  7. ^ http://www.anrichter.net/projects/qsvn/
  8. ^ http://sourceforge.net/projects/sd-svn/
  9. ^ http://www.syntevo.com/smartsvn/
  10. ^ Help — Eclipse SDK
  11. ^ http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/
  12. ^ Eclipse Subversive — Documentation
  13. ^ http://www.dreamweaver-extensions.net/index.php/SVN-for-Dreamweaver--Windows-and-Macintosh/
  14. ^ http://www.pushok.com/soft_svncom.php
  15. ^ http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/features/
  16. ^ http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/tamtamsvn/
  17. ^ http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html
  18. ^ http://aigenta.com/products/UnifiedScc.aspx
  19. ^ http://www.visualsvn.com/visualsvn/

See also

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