I'm sure this has been talked about over and over, but I need some good
direction here. I've been developing on windows for quite some time. I
have a shared server that is linux based, and have decided to also do my
development in linux for various reasons. There's a lot that I like about
it, and initially had a really good feeling about it. However, its the
little things are getting to me. One of them is the subversion support. I
use ubuntu, and have come to terms with the fact that I can't just download
the latest subversion and run it. However, there's no tortoisesvn. This
one app is almost enough to get me to switch back. From what I've found,
the linux users seem to prefer the cli. Anybody have another option? No
offense to rapid, but I've never liked it. I have it installed now, and
again its missing the little things. For example, I'd like to right-click
and select ignore on a directory. You can select the '.' directory, and add
'svn:ignore' with the directory as a value, but its clunky. Also, I had to
build 9.1 from source, and there is apparently no ssl support. I know, you
can build it in. Its just such a pain to build from source every time you
want to install something. I've tried to build subcommander, but can get
past configure.
So, any thoughts? I hate to sound like I'm complaining about free
software. Love subversion. Want to be on linux. Love tortoise. If I can
find a decent gui I'll stick around for a while, but can't come to a
conclusion. I also have a hard time trying some out, like subcommander,
because of the startup time (source builds).
I have smartsvn installed, but the documentation and the actual client don't
seem to jive. I'm also not sure what is a pay feature and what isn't, and I
think I'd rather go back to windows, which I already own, than pay for a
client on linux. Unless there's something really sweet that I haven't seen
yet.
Maybe I should use a different linux distribution? Maybe fedora has
newer/more pre-built packages? So far the user experience of ubuntu has
been great so I'm reluctant to switch, but it would be a possibility.
Thanks
Received on Fri Apr 14 15:44:01 2006