Windows
Finding a good Windows client was easy. TortoiseSVN is an Explorer shell extension that is free, stable, and complete. It worked right out of the box with Google Code and I didn't have to read a single line of documentation to become proficient at it.
Mac
The situation wasn't quite as simple for Mac. There are multiple non-free clients for Mac, but I wanted to stick with open source if possible. The closest thing to TortoiseSVN for Mac is something called SCPlugin, but it is incomplete and development on it seems to have stalled in 2005 or 2006.
SvnX is the one I ended up choosing. It is not quite as intuitive as TortoiseSVN, but it seems to get the job done. To get it working with Google Code, I had to run this command on the command line in order to accept the security certificate:
svn list https://GOOGLE_CODE_CHECKOUT_URLThat's it! Off to do some programming.
3 comments:
Nowadays I use the SVN support in IDEA, or the command line, but in the past I liked the tools from Syntevo (http://www.syntevo.com/smartsvn/index.html). They have GUI tools for both CVS and SVN. I haven't used them in about two years, but I'd like to plug them as I found them very easy to use and well-designed. They are cross-platform so should work without problem on Win, OS X and Linux.
Regards
Patrick
Since you are familiar with git, why didn't you choose to use git-svn?
Martin,
You are right, I could have used git-svn instead, but I thought I'd give a GUI app a chance for a change.
--Kevin
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