Kevin Galligan wrote:
> 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
Hi Kevin,
What is your GUI? I am running KDE which has a Subversion shell
extension and I like it. It still isn't quite as good as TortoiseSVN,
but it is much closer than the other two you mention.
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26589
As far as the distribution - I'm not familiar with what Ubuntu can do,
but I definitely like SUSE.
Regards,
Frank
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Received on Fri Apr 14 16:07:58 2006