Versions is here and rocking

Tuesday November 18th 2008
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The best Subversion client for the Mac by far is now out of beta, and it continues to rock. And at only €39 per licence, the price is right too.

 

If you use Subversion as your source control and versioning, then on a Windows box you will no doubt be aware that TortoiseSVN is the best SVN client out there for your PC. I personally also use VisualSVN for its Visual Studio 2008 integration which makes life so easy when developing in the IDE, and the free VisualSVN Server taking care of the backend business.

 

But on a Mac the toolkit has been far from clear cut until recently. There have been numerous SVN client tools around for a while, but most of them sucked in some way or another – mostly as they were so unmac-like. Then all of a sudden Versions came around the corner and filled the empty SVN client gap nicely.

 

Actually about the same time Cornerstone came along as well, which looks great too, but just doesn’t flow as well as Versions for me, and it was a whole load slower. It is also a tad more expensive (but not by much to be fair). You might prefer it over Versions, but it’s not for me.

 

Couple the arrival of Versions with the release of Coda 1.6, which also has SVN support built in and developing on a Mac has never been better.

 

Versions. Get yourself a copy today http://www.versionsapp.com/

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2 Responses to “Versions is here and rocking”

  1. Mark Lindner Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    Cornerstone and Versions are too limited at the moment for being really useful. If you need a powerful SVN client which is can do more than update and commit, use SmartSVN Professional. My company evaluated all known SVN clients in the past few weeks and SmartSVN Professional knocked all of them out.

  2. Ira Rainey Says:
    November 19th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    SmartSVN is a pretty powerful product but it’s a typical Java app in that the interface is clunky and slow. Plus the professional version is a tad more expensive again than Cornerstone and Versions.

    I also evaluated SmartSVN for a while, and I do still keep a copy of it on both my Mac and PCs. The reality is for a lot of people, update and commit is pretty much all they do on a regular basis. In which case it kind of boils down to personal preference.

    Also let?s not forget that this is only the first release of Versions. It will be interesting to see how it pans out going forward.

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