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Softpedia Editor's Review for TortoiseSVN
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A Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension
Written by Mihaela Citea on January 28th, 2012
TortoiseSVN is a Windows shell extension that provides a user-friendly interface for Subversion, a software designed to allow developers easily maintain current and historical file versions.
After installing this software versioning application, one additional item is integrated in the context menu of any file in your computer. From there, you can access the Repo-browser and the program's settings. The Settings window allows you to customize the items that appear in the context menu and other options.
In order to create repositories, developers normally use a Subversion server. But with the help of TortoiseSVN, you can easily transform an empty folder into a new local repository, which acts just like a file server, allowing you to store files. The Import window enables you to assign a short description of the action you are performing and all the changes are recorded in your project history log.
When making changes to any file that is also found in the repository, even if you modify a line in a text file, the performed actions are recorded by TortoiseSVN. In order to view them, you can use TortoiseMerge, an application that displays a two-sided window, enabling you to compare the revision and the original file contents.
The spotted differences are highlighted, so you can view them much better. Moreover, you can use TortoiseMerge to easily compare any text files you want.
While TortoiseMerge enables you to compare text files' content, TortoiseDiff allows you to compare two images. The side-to-side display and the overlaying option are the two features that enable you to easily identify any difference between the opened pictures. You can set the viewing options as you desire: link image positions, change their displaying size, zoom in and out.
One useful feature of TortoiseSVN is the possibility to view the project log. This way, you can keep track of any change that has been made to your files and folders.
TortoiseSVN is a simple, yet useful and customizable program designed to help you easily manage files and folders over time. Using it, you can view all the modifications that a file has suffered and recover previous file versions.
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TortoiseSVN description
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Here are some key features of "TortoiseSVN":
Easy to use:
· all commands are available directly from the windows explorer.
· only commands that make sense for the selected file/folder are shown. You won't see any commands that you can't use in your situation.
· See the status of your files directly in the Windows explorer
· descriptive dialogs, constantly improved due to user feedback
· allows moving files by right-dragging them in the windows explorer
All Subversion protocols are supported:
· http://
· https://
· svn://
· svn ssh://
· file:///
· svn XXX://
Powerful commit dialog:
· integrated spell checker for log messages
· auto completion of paths and keywords of the modified files
· text formatting with special chars
The big picture:
· Can create a graph of all revisions/commits. You can then easily see where you created a tag/branch or modified a file/folder
· Graphs of commit statistics of the project
· Easy comparing of two branches or tags
Per project settings:
· minimum log message length to avoid accidentally committing with an empty log message
· language to use for the spell checker
Integration with issue tracking systems:
· TortoiseSVN provides a flexible mechanism to integrate any web based bug tracking system.
· A separate input box to enter the issue number assigned to the commit, or coloring of the issue number directly in the log message itself
· When showing all log messages, an extra column is added with the issue number. You can immediately see to which issue the commit belongs to.
· Issue numbers are converted into links which open the webbrowser directly on the corresponding issue
· Optional warning if a commit isn't assigned to an issue number
Helpful Tools:
· TortoiseMerge (Shows changes you made to your files, helps resolving conflicts, can apply patchfiles you got from users without commit access to your repository )
· TortoiseBlame: to show blames of files. Shows also log messages for each line in a file.
· TortoiseIDiff: to see the changes you made to your image files
· SubWCRev: to include the revision numbers/dates/... into your source files
Available in many languages:
TortoiseSVN is stable:
· Before every release, we create one or more 'release candidates' for adventurous people to test first.
· During development cycles, many people test intermediate builds. These are built every night automatically and made available to all our users. This helps finding bugs very early so they won't even get into an official release.
· A big user community helps out with testing each build before we release it.
· A custom crash report tool is included in every TortoiseSVN release which helps us fix the bugs much faster, even if you can't remember exactly what you did to trigger it.
Support:
· Extensive and descriptive documentation is available in several formats and languages
· A big list of frequently asked questions and problems with all the answers is also available
· For your specific problems, we have a mailing list where many users can help you. Usually you get an answer for your problem within a few hours.
Requirements:
· Internet Explorer 5.5 or later
· Windows Installer 3.1 or later
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· BUG: Issue #184: Refresh in log dialog only refreshes the last fetched block.
· BUG: Issue #185: apply patch from clipboard fails for direct items.
· BUG: Issue #186: Overlays can crash the shell.
· BUG: Issue #188: edit log message fails to edit case changes.
· BUG: Issue #191: SubWRev fails when started from a short path.
· BUG: Issue #192: CL client does not expand wildcards.
· BUG: Issue #193: Bogus warning about non-recursive commit.
· BUG: Issue #194: 'Copy all information to clipboard' tree conflict information missing.
· BUG: Issue #197: "Update item to revision" missing in Repo-browser.
· BUG: Issue #198: Overlay lost on revert.
· BUG: Issue #199: cache crashes with too long paths.
· BUG: Issue #200: Result message box shows doubled entries when (un)ignoring.
· BUG: Issue #201: "Show Log" missing from renamed/copied files.
· BUG: Issue #204: Sparse update fails to fetch new items.
· BUG: Issue #205: Long urls fail to checkout/export.
· BUG: Issue #206: Scroll problem in TortoiseMerge.
· BUG: I...
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