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.

## Contents

* 1 Descriptions
* 2 Subversion clients comparison table
* 3 Standalone Subversion clients comparison table
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## 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

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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;
4 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;
18 years ago (2007-07-16).[4] For Windows: July 12, 2007;
18 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;
16 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;
16 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;
6 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;
13 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;
9 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;
13 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;
5 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;
6 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;
6 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;
5 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;
7 years ago (2018-06-19) | ?  | ?

## Standalone Subversion clients comparison table

Client name  | Free  | Network protocols  | Diff  | Merge  | Browse remote repository

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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

1. ↑ Cei, Ugo; Lucidi, Piergiorgio (2010). Alfresco 3 Web Services. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. n.p. ISBN 9781849511537. https://books.google.com/books?id=aCAHMyCi38EC. Retrieved 2013-03-04. "In Eclipse, for instance, you will have to install one of the existing Subversion plugins, such as Subversive [...]"
2. ↑ "Eclipse Subversive - Subversion (SVN) Team Provider | the Eclipse Foundation". http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/.
3. ↑ AnkhSVN Releases at GitHub
4. ↑ eSvn - Browse /eSvn/0.6.12 at SourceForge.net
5. ↑ eSvn - Browse /eSvn/0.6.11 at SourceForge.net
6. ↑ Press Room - PixelNovel - innovative tools for Adobe Photoshop users, such as version control for Photoshop and a Photoshop plugin for exporting photos to Flickr
7. ↑ PixelNovel Timeline Released - Press Release -PixelNovel - innovative tools for Adobe Photoshop users, such as version control for Photoshop and a Photoshop plugin for exportin...
8. ↑ "RabbitVCS v0.18 Released « RabbitVCS". http://blog.rabbitvcs.org/archives/413.
9. ↑ "RabbitVCS v0.18 Released « RabbitVCS". http://blog.rabbitvcs.org/archives/413.
10. ↑ SubTile Project
11. ↑ http://svnnotifier.tigris.org/source/browse/*checkout*/svnnotifier/trunk/ReleaseNotes.txt [bare URL plain text file]
12. ↑ TortoiseSVN localization
13. ↑ TortoiseSVN Downloads - Current Version
14. ↑ TracL10N - Localization of Trac
15. ↑ Trac Changelog
16. ↑ Trac Changelog
17. ↑ ViewVC Changelog at GitHub
18. ↑ VisualSVN | Version History
19. ↑ Xcode on the Mac App Store

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