Software:Comparison of Subversion clients

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A comparison of Subversion clients includes various aspects of computer software implementations of the client role using the client–server model of the Subversion revision control system.

Descriptions

TortoiseSVN, a Windows shell extension, gives feedback on the state of versioned items by adding overlays to the icons in the Windows Explorer. Repository commands can be executed from the enhanced context menu provided by Tortoise.

SmartSVN provides a similar Explorer integration, but also can be used as a standalone SVN client for different platforms. SmartSVN is available in three different editions: A free Foundation edition with fewer features and two commercial editions called Professional and Enterprise with the full feature set.

Some programmers prefer to have a client integrated within their development environment. Such environments may provide visual feedback of the state of versioned items and add repository commands to the menus of the development environment. Examples of this approach include AnkhSVN, and VisualSVN for use with Microsoft Visual Studio, and Eclipse Subversive[1] [2] for use with Eclipse Platform IDEs. Delphi XE Subversion integration is built into the Delphi integrated development environment.

It is common to expose Subversion via WebDAV using the Apache web server. In this case, any WebDAV client can be used, but the functionality provided this way may be limited. Alternative ways to serve Subversion include uberSVN and VisualSVN Server.

Subversion clients comparison table

Name Programming language, toolkit Operating system License Integration Languages Network protocols Current version Last release date Server functionality Visualization
AnkhSVN C#, SharpSvn Microsoft Windows Apache License Microsoft Visual Studio (all editions except Express) English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 2.9.87 2016November 9, 2021;
2 years ago
 (2021-11-09)[3]
No Diff, blame, history, properties
eSvn C++, Qt Unix-like operating systems (Linux distributions, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris and others), Mac OS X and Windows GPL GUI, standalone (like WinCVS, Cervisia) English http, svn 0.6.12 2007For *nix OSs: July 16, 2007;
16 years ago
 (2007-07-16).[4] For Windows: July 12, 2007;
17 years ago
 (2007-07-12)[5]
No ?
PixelNovel Timeline C++ Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Free if used with PixelNovel web storage, 30-day trial with commercial upgrade otherwise Adobe Photoshop English svn 1.0 2009July 7, 2009;
15 years ago
 (2009-07-07)[6][7]
? ?
QSvn C++, Qt Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows GPL GUI, standalone (like WinCVS) English 0.8.3 2009July 26, 2009;
14 years ago
 (2009-07-26)
No ?
RabbitVCS Python, GTK+ Linux GPL Nautilus, Thunar, Gedit, CLI ca, cs, de, en, es, fa, fr, he, hr, it, ja, nb, nl, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, sl, sv, zh_CN http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 0.18 [8] 2020February 12, 2020;
4 years ago
 (2020-02-12)[9]
? ?
RapidSVN C++, wxWidgets Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, many more GPL GUI, standalone Unicode, many 0.12.1 2012June 28, 2012;
12 years ago
 (2012-06-28)
No External
SubTile XUL, JavaScript Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (Any with Xulrunner or Firefox) GPL, Mozilla Public License, Apache License GUI, standalone English http, https, svn, svn+ssh 0.2.201505204 2017May 1, 2017;
7 years ago
 (2017-05-01)[10]
No Diff, merge, revision graph
SVN Notifier C# Microsoft Windows GPL GUI, standalone. It needs TortoiseSVN installed. English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.9.3 2012June 25, 2012;
12 years ago
 (2012-06-25)[11]
? ?
TortoiseSVN C++, MFC Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit) GPL Windows Shell (Explorer) 54 languages (including english)[12] http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, svn+XXX 1.14.1 2020February 10, 2021;
3 years ago
 (2021-02-10)[13]
No Diff, merge, Revision Tree, blame
Trac Python Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Modified BSD web-based 33 languages (including english)[14] file 1.2.4[15] 2019July 17, 2019;
4 years ago
 (2019-07-17)[16]
Yes Log
ViewVC Python http, https "two-clause Berkeley-style" web-based English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.2.1 2014March 26, 2020;
4 years ago
 (2020-03-26)[17]
? Diff, annotation, blame, revision graph
VisualSVN Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit) proprietary Microsoft Visual Studio (all editions except Express) English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 7.3.0 2020October 6, 2020;
3 years ago
 (2020-10-06)[18]
Yes ?
Xcode Objective-C, Cocoa macOS Proprietary, free[19] Xcode IDE English 9.4.1
Support for SVN was dropped in Xcode 10
2018June 19, 2018;
6 years ago
 (2018-06-19)
? ?

Standalone Subversion clients comparison table

Client name Free Network protocols Diff Merge Browse remote repository
eSvn Yes http, svn ? ? ?
QSvn Yes Yes ? ?
RapidSVN Yes internal internal Yes
SubTile Yes http, https, svn, svn+ssh Yes Yes Yes

See also

  • Revision control

References