The story for today is about Subversion program and other program that can use with subversion.

I normally separate the subversion program into two groups as follow.

1. Command line subversion program is the subversion program that must use only the command to manage all operation of subversion (such as you must type the command in the “command prompt” of Windows XP) Subversion program in command line interface have many binary files used for manage the subversion system altogether such as “svn.exe”,”svnadmin.exe”,”sveserve.exe”,”svnlook.exe”.The advantage of this subversion series is that it is able to used in many operating system.You can look for the OS
that can be use the subversion in command line style at http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html#windows.
Another advantage is that it provide the subversion server program (subversion is managed as the
client-server model, so it must set the subversion server first) used for make the subversion server service
that other clients can be connect to.The only disadvantage of this subversion series is that it is difficult
to manage because it is only the command , you must type the command to manage it!! and you also
must read the a lot of the instructions of the command too.The well-known program for this series of
subversion is come from CollabNet at here –> http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/

2.Graphical user interface subversion program is the subversion program used only as the subversion client software.

This series of subversion program must used as the integrator with other software or OS.The well-known subversion program in this series is TortoiseSVN (for integrate with windows explorer), Subclipse and Subversive (for integrate with Eclipse IDE),AnkhSVN and VisualSVN (for integrate with Visual Studio), RapidSVN (Cross-platform) etc…

The main advantage of GUI subversion is the ease of use because you don’t have to write the command to control the subversion system , just only use mouse to click at the command you want at the GUI subversion program.However before you can use the GUI Subversion program to control your subversion you must set subversion server service by using Apache subversion module or using the subversion server program that usually come with the subversion command line program.

Subclipse windows.

TortoiseSVN commit windows.

For the subversion client software for windows I recommend to use TortoiseSVN because it is easy to use,popular and the software is cover all the necessary operation for manage the subversion system.If you use the eclipse IDE as your development environment I suggest to use Subclipse because of the ease of use and it capability is similar to TortoiseSVN.

If the subversion programs I show you in the above is not enough.I also have other suggestion programs that can be use with the subversion client software to make it better and easy to monitor.They are…

– cvs2svn http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/-> The tool to convert the CVS to SVN.

– CommitMonitor http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/CommitMonitor-> Integrate with TortoiseSVN to look for the commit and the change that happen to the repository.
– WebSVN http://websvn.tigris.org/ -> The web interface for look at the status in subversion system.
– svnnotifier http://svnnotifier.tigris.org/ -> Look for the commit and change that happen to the repository.
– StatSVN http://sourceforge.net/projects/statsvn/-> Look for the statistic of the subversion.
– Bugzilla/SVN integration http://sean-janus.optionpc.com/me/software/bugtraq/ -> scripts to integrate Bugzilla with Subversion.
– Gurtle http://code.google.com/p/gurtle/ -> TortoiseSVN issue tracker plug-in.

For more information about subversion software , please take a look at http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#clients

By jitkasem pintaya.

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