In an earlier post about Actionscript development on the Mac. It was mentioned that one of the big holes in the Mac development suite was a SVN client as good as Tortoise SVN.
Tortoise is my favorite SVN client and, as far as I can tell, the best one out. It integrates directly into Windows Explorer, so you don’t have to navigate your repository through some weird one-off file navigator. But alas, there’s no version for the Mac.
I’ve recently found something pretty close: scplugin. It integrates with the finder, so you can execute repository commands from the right-click menu. There are a couple downsides, though.
For one thing, it’s still a young software product. Right now, the latest version is 0.6, so not all of the functionality is in place. It also requires the command-line version of subversion to be installed. Still, it gets the basics right. Update, Commit, and Revert seem to work just fine.
It’s definitely shows a lot of promise.
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Josh // March 12, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I recently found SCPlugin as well. The one feature that’s missing for me is diff support within the commit dialog. I like to check what has changed since my last commit so that I don’t forget anything in the log.
Jack Repenning // August 28, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Version 0.7 is out. Key new features:
– an installer!
– handles the credentials for checkouts (don’t need that command line any more)
– much improved (though not yet perfect) badging consistency
– everything in the context menu works