Thanks for the info. I think it's best not to mess with this. I'm
going to stick with managing the working copy from the Mac. And I'll
look into your recommendations. I took a short look at svnX awhile
back, but it seems like it hasn't really been paid much attention to
for awhile.
On Nov 24, 6:39 pm, "Andy Levy" <andy.l..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 21:17, slim <eusi.emba..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Seems that some of my attempts to post here aren't working. Maybe I
> > posted to author, so Andy, you may be seeing this for the second time.
>
> > Yes, I was just looking for the functionality of TSVN on Mac. I used
> > it a fair amount on Windows, but have been using a Mac most of the
> > time for the last couple of years. My dev work partly occurs on a
> > Windows VM on the Mac, though. My working files are on the Mac, not
> > the VM. I was using the command line for SVN until recently. Then, I
> > switched to the beta version of a SVN client called Versions. And now,
> > I'm doing a trial of a similar app called Cornerstone. Both are pretty
> > nice, though maybe not as full featured as TSVN. Not bargains,
> > either.
>
> Have you looked at CollabNet Desktop or Subclipse (if you're using
> Eclipse already), or svnX?
>
> > Still, I may end up buying one of them.
>
> > I may try using TSVN on the VM, but I'm a bit worried about possible
> > cross platform problems. The VM sees the files on the Mac as being on
> > a network drive. I don't know if TSVN or SVN in general are intended
> > to manage WCs on network drives.
>
> Managing WCs on network drives isn't limited by Subversion itself, but
> rather some other external factors. Permissions are one, but that's
> probably not going to come up much in your usage. The other is
> platform-specific settings, like svn:eol-style. If you set that to
> native, then when you check out on MacOS, you'll get LF EOL markers,
> but most Windows apps expect CRLF as that's what's native to Windows
> (non-crap Windows editors can handle this though).
>
> It's easier to just not tempt fate & keep things local.
>
> Then there's the whole deal with Windows being case-insensitive for
> filenames, and MacOS sometimes being case-sensitive and sometimes
> insensitive.
>
>
>
> > On Nov 24, 5:29 pm, "Andy Levy" <andy.l..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 20:23, slim <eusi.emba..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Would it be safe to install TortoiseSVN on a Windows virtual machine
> >> > on a Mac running the latest version of Leopard? The idea of any file
> >> > management from Windows to Mac makes me nervous, but maybe people have
> >> > done it and it's not going to endanger anything.
>
> >> > Any thoughts on this?
>
> >> Sharing a WC between Windows & the Mac is not recommended. Sharing WCs
> >> between OSes or users can lead to complications. Are you considering
> >> doing this just to have the functionality of TSVN "sort of" on OS X?
>
> >> Aside from that, Windows doesn't know it's running in a VM, so TSVN
> >> should work fine.
>
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