I come from a RoR background while using GitHub. I am now working on C#/ASP.NET in VS2010. I have a subversion repo set up at a client site waiting to be used. What client tool do you recommend using with subversion? Command Line (which I like), TortoiseSVN, etc.
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TortoiseSVN has served me well for years. If you want Visual Studio integration, use AnkhSVN
Babak Naffas
2010-06-28 21:23:06
Will he need something like SilkSVN underneath his Tortoise? (Heh, sounds like inquiring if the dog needs to have newspapers beneath him)
rlb.usa
2010-06-28 21:24:56
@rlb.usa, not necessarily. As per the initial question, there's already a repository set up. SilkSVN us simple a hosting service. For a hosted solution, I prefer http://www.projectlocker.com/; their free service offer more (Trac integration, more users, more storage).
Babak Naffas
2010-06-28 21:34:16
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TortoiseSVN is probably the most used.
If you want Visual Studio integration, you could try AnkhSVN (Open Source) or VisualSVN (commercial, not free).
Disclaimer: I'm not an Subversion expert (I use Mercurial), but I think these are the ones you hear most about.
haarrrgh
2010-06-28 21:25:49
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I use 2.
AnkhSVN for my Visual Studio projects.
TortoiseSVN for items I don't put into Visual Studio such as image files
Ed B
2010-06-28 21:28:35
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Tortoise SVN + VisualSVN (free for open source work). Tortoise SVN has come a long way. Its integrated as a shell extension into the file system, so you dont need VisualSVN if you dont need to access SVN from inside VS.
James Westgate
2010-06-28 21:41:18
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AxoSoft currently has a great integration product for Visual Studio called RocketSVN, that is currently free (I believe it is a beta). I've been using it for a couple of months now. Nice thing is it only tracks the items in your solution explorer. (vs. Tortoise, which I love, which wants to check in everything, e.g. compiled files in your bin folder, test results, etc.)
I've tried AnkhSVN, this is much better IMHO.
Mike Strother
2010-07-02 15:28:33
One of RocketSVN's bullet points on the link is "No more messy svn:ignore patterns". But, without those svn:ignore patterns it would seem that you are effectively limited to RocketSVN as your only client (since other clients do not have RocketSVN's built-in ignore list). This seems somewhat limiting. Is it?
james
2010-07-02 15:44:28