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Versions.app - OS X Subversion with Style
by Nik Fletcher Jun 19th 2008 at 6:00PM
For some of us here at Download Squad, a fear of the command-line, compounded with a little loathing of the svnX interface made the announcement of Versions.app - over a year ago - more than a little exciting. Promising an elegant and truly OS X interface to work with Subversion, it's taken a long time to come to fruition - however the betas to date do appear to deliver.
After having used Versions on a daily basis since its debut 2 weeks ago, it's certainly showing a great deal of promise - and makes version control far friendlier. As others have noted, the application not only makes working with existing repositories easy, but also has quick links to Subversion web-service Beanstalk, allowing you to easily create a new online repository and add it to Versions.
Pricing for Versions will be set 'when version 1.0 ships', and currently all (free-to-use) betas expire on July 1st.
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thezonie said 10:04PM on 6-19-2008
I've used CVS for years, and currently use SmartCVS for Mac to connect to my repositories ... Is there really enough of a difference between SVN and CVS to switch? Or is it the case of "there is enough cool stuff in SVN that from now on use it instead of CVS"? Or maybe it's just down to personal preference?
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gentax said 3:52AM on 6-20-2008
I'm using Versions since the first day of the beta.
It works great! And it's a really Mac applications, well done.
If you use SVN, it's the application to choose.
Paolo
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