SvnX for Mac

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• Broken in 10.6

  srigginsNovember 5, 2009

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  You can go back to 0.9.13 so all is not lost

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  Doesn't load the entire repository; Doesn't redraw properly. Went back to 0.9.13 which works fine

  Summary

  Busted revision; Wait for bug fix

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• Solid, basic toolset

  BrainGuyOctober 12, 2009

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />SvnX seems to cover the basics; there's a bit of a learning curve and a user guide for n00bs like myself would be a good thing (the ReadMe helps a lot, but if I hadn't used other SVN clients before I would have been pretty badly lost.) All in all though it gets the job done smoothly with a minimum of fuss, and goodness knows the price is right!

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• I really can't recommend this

  evanlooijAugust 19, 2008

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've tried using SvnX again and again and each time I felt worse off after using it than before. It's a wrapper for command line svn but I honestly feel that even a beginner at Subversion or someone like me who runs into svn problems again and again is better off with using the command line. SvnX has an interface, but not a very good one. The program does nothing to help guide users towards taking the best actions, in my case it just sits there and tells me I do it wrong. The svn command line at least gives hints on how to do it right, but not SvnX. And then, when I finally did manage to connect to a repository (SvnX refuses to list repositories contained under root, you have to know the exact name), it crashed (I'm running 10.5.4). Which is when I dragged the program to the trash and wrote this. Anyway, if you want to use Subversion (and despite the frustrations you will encounter you do, really), I advice using the command line and configuring your apache server with mod_dav so you can look through your repositories in the browser. Or else Subclipse in Eclipse (which will annoy you too, but less than SvnX.

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• Unable to access repositories on 10.3.9

  ImbroglioNovember 11, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Upgraded from 9.7 to 9.9 and the Working Copy Inspector is working fine, but the Repository Inspector doesn't connect, and I get a bunch of NSDateFormatter errors in console. I tried to report this on the svnx forum, but was unable to register.

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• Nice GUI, functionality getting more solid

  srogers4_dotmacJuly 29, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been using SvnX for quite a while. It has one of the better UI designs among SVN clients, but I've always had trouble with it just going off in the weeds while browsing the repository - have to cancel and retry frequently to get it to update. However, this seems much better in the current 0.9.8 release. I'd spent some time working with SmartSVN, even though I find the GUI to be inferior because clicking on a folder in SvnX and waiting forever-and-ever for the contents to be fetched from the repository makes SvnX really difficult to use - particularly for operations like "move" where you have to navigate to a target. But now that this problem is fixed, I'm back with SvnX. The documentation is not very good, and the forums at the developer site seem to be frozen, so there's practically no formal or informal help. However, its pretty easy to use.

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• svnX rox

  Cloetus_1February 21, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been wanting to get a Subversion repository set up for some time. A couple big projects loom and so I dove in. SvnX made the process much easier--combined with BBEdit's built-in svn support, I'm in heaven!

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• Indispensable!

  moofsterJanuary 20, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This free product is something I use at work on a daily basis. I got tired of the svn support within XCode and have switched to using SvnX entirely instead. While there are a few instances where I've had to resort to the svn command line to fix conflicts, etc., for 95% of my work this GUI is perfect! Thanks for writing it!

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• Good but not deep

  zimbopDecember 23, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />SvnX is fine as far as it goes, but there are other applications which go deeper and are more stable, such as SmartSVN, which while it's a java app, has performed flawlessly for me. SmartSVN is amazingly complete in comparison to any of the other SVN GUI on Version Tracker (and amazingly doesn't appear on VT itself!) but it's a Java app, and I'd rather be using an actual mac app. Hence my trying SvnX. Please lord, help the developers to take it a lot further as it's the best of the native OSX apps, I'd pay good money for it if it went a lot further. By the way, the comment about it should be in a single window, I couldn't agree more.

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• Indispensable

  JuicyAugust 26, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br /><p>I've moved all my CVS repositories over to subversion. But it wasn't until svnX existed that I was confident I could do that without plenty of headaches. This version runs beautifully on my TiBook 800MHz running Panther 10.3.9. I have occasional dropped connections, causing me to quit svnX. And it's quit on its own a couple times. But the cleverness and simplicity of the interface make it a joy to use. The repository browser alone is a work of art.</p><p>Things I hope for in future versions:</p><ul><li>lots of key commands</li><li>better log viewing (not just slit panes -- perhaps an inspector palette)</li><li>complete properties support</li><li>faster display in hierarchical view</li><li>faster repository display in column view</li><li>contextual menus for column/flat views (loaded with per-file operations)</li><li>a branch merging manager (capable of handing off to BBEdit, as well as FileMerge)</li><li>surprises! (Thanks, Santa Dominique!)</li></ul>-B...

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• Very nice, as far as I can see

  d.siskaJune 13, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I'm new to subversion (and version control systems in general). I decided it would be nice to have by big LaTeX projects in a version control system. The command line interface to subversion is simple enough, but this graphical client is also quite nice. My only issue with it is that it does not update the view of the repository automatically i.e. if a new commit is added, once it has been opened, I wouldn't know about it. It's not 100% intuitive, but then again version control systems are not entirely trivial, so a learning curve is to be expected.

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