Re: WinSVN or WinCVS equivalent for SVN ?

[I'm not familiar with WinCVS or Tortoise CVS, so I can't *compare* them with Tortoise SVN.]

With Tortoise SVN, just right-click on a directory (folder) to bring up the context menu and select "SVN Check for Modifications". That will bring up the sort of "flat" list I think you're after. You can optionally then show unmodified and/or "unversioned" files. Many further operations are available from that list (such as revert, diff, add,...).

If you make changes outside that view, you will need to "refresh it" (close it and open another one).

There is also a "repository browser" with Tortoise SVN.

Personally, I prefer to do almost any of the SVN operations using the command line client. (I tend to commit using Tortoise, as that has a convenient method of selecting a subset of modified files to be included in the commit; even that is a bit of a pain if the commit fails and you have to repeat the operation. I prefer to perform branching, merging, updates, and most other operations using the command line.) I find the command line client more intuitive and predictable than *any* of the graphical clients I've tried. You may be more "at home" with graphical interfaces, however.

Tortoise SVN does provide excellent visual feedback of the status of your files (via icon overlays), either recursively, or non-recursively, as you prefer.

The built-in diff/merge tools with Tortoise are not great, in my opinion. However, Tortoise does integrate very well, and conveniently, with other with differencing/merging tools (such as the excellent, free "KDiff3", and/or, for differencing only, the commercial "Beyond Compare").

I would highly recommend Tortoise, whether you use it "actively" (to modify your working copies and repositories) or "passively" (only to inspect your working copies and repositories).

<http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/>
<http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/>

Rob.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dajtw [mailto:work@mcheung.com]
> Sent: 28 November 2006 10:40
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: WinSVN or WinCVS equivalent for SVN ?
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>
> Can I ask if tortoise allows flat structure display of a
> directory like
> WinCVS? For example to display every single 'modified' file
> that needs
> commiting across the entire directory structure? This is the
> one thing that
> keeps me using WinCVS and I think tortoise cvs doesn't have...
>
>
> Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> >
> >>>>>> "Bernhard" == Bernhard Merkle <news@merkleonline.de> writes:
> >
> > Bernhard> Hi there, the subject says all: I am searching a
> > Bernhard> powerfull SVN client on windows, like WinCVS for CVS.
> > Bernhard> Is there something like WinSVN or a
> equivalent for SVN ?
> >
> > I don't know anything about WinSVN, but I can say with confidence:
> > TortoiseSVN is _by far_ the best GUI for Windows. In fact it's the
> > only one even worth considering.
> >
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