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I need a Subversion user interface that meets the following requirements:
- User interface that runs on Windows
- Does NOT require usage of a shell extension (if one is included, it should be optional)
- Actively maintained (i.e. new, regular releases within the past year)
- Free
Is an Apache Subversion (SVN) client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It is linked against Subversion 1.11.1. Posted on December 10, 2012. In conclusion, old projects using Subversion 1.7.x do not show icons and projects using Subversion 1.9.x do (under Windows 10). Tip: there is a button that takes you to the registry in Settings -> Icon Overlays -> Overlay Handlers -> Start registry editor.
Surprisingly, I'm having trouble finding such a thing! I want it for working with the occasional Subversion repository - I won't be using it on a daily basis. For that reason, options like TortoiseSVN are NOT really desired because they will clutter up and slow down my Windows Explorer shell. (I already have shell extensions for Git and seemingly a million other apps, the last thing I need is yet another shell extension for a source control package I'm going to only rarely use.)
A comparable project for Git is Git Extensions. Binaries are provided for Windows, it's GPL, the last release was within the past 30 days, and the shell extension is optional: it's a standalone GUI. I'm surprised I haven't found such a thing for SVN..
James JohnstonJames Johnston
3 Answers
Subversion WorkBench may be a good solution satisfying your requirements. And it's free of course!
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The problem is that most Windows users love TortoiseSVN so much that there isn't much demand for other Windows clients. However, there are a few:
- RapidSVN. This is one of the Tigris projects that CollabNet has (and Subversion was also a Tigris project). It's official version is 0.12 which seems to me to say that the developers don't have much faith in the product.
- QSvn. From a KDE project for a Subversion client using the QT toolkit. It should work on Windows, but like many QT projects, it'll probably have a decidedly non-Windows feel to it.
- PySvn: Sometimes called Subversion Workbench. This is written in Python, so it should work on all platforms that use Python. You may have to have Python 3.x installed for this to work.
Windows 8 lite iso 700mb. Word 'o Warning: I never used any of these tools. I like using the command line client myself.
David W.David W.
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