Comments on: Subversion branch http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/ Life, .NET, and Cats Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:36:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Heather http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5444 Heather Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:17:00 +0000 http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5444 This might be out of the scope of this posting, but… I’ve been given the task of finding an open source SCM to replace Star Team (the director is having issues with the contract, etc) – Everything I read goes back to Subversion, and tortoise seems to be a very cool GUI for it. How do you think that Subversion/tortoise compares to Star Team? Do you think it would be a decent replacement tool? We’re a small company, so we’re not concerned with bug tracking. We basically just need it for version control so we don’t fail the SOX audits. Thanks for your help! This might be out of the scope of this posting, but… I’ve been given the task of finding an open source SCM to replace Star Team (the director is having issues with the contract, etc) – Everything I read goes back to Subversion, and tortoise seems to be a very cool GUI for it. How do you think that Subversion/tortoise compares to Star Team? Do you think it would be a decent replacement tool? We’re a small company, so we’re not concerned with bug tracking. We basically just need it for version control so we don’t fail the SOX audits. Thanks for your help!

]]> By: Joe White http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5443 Joe White Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:26:00 +0000 http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5443 Subversion does let you write a script that gets automatically run on the server whenever someone commits a change. There are probably some bugtrackers that already hook in through that capability. (But yes, I agree that StarTeam's built-in bugtracking database is pretty cool.) Subversion does let you write a script that gets automatically run on the server whenever someone commits a change. There are probably some bugtrackers that already hook in through that capability. (But yes, I agree that StarTeam’s built-in bugtracking database is pretty cool.)

]]> By: Kevin Berry http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5442 Kevin Berry Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:30:00 +0000 http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5442 OK, StarTeam has that as well- it is called StarDisk. However, last time I looked at it (back in 2002 AFAICR) it wasn't as advanced as TortoiseSVN. It was intended more for casual SCM users. The StarTeam client handles bug tracking linked to CRs and files etc. I really love that capability. Until SVN has bugtracking built in I don't think it will be as useful. OK, StarTeam has that as well- it is called StarDisk. However, last time I looked at it (back in 2002 AFAICR) it wasn’t as advanced as TortoiseSVN. It was intended more for casual SCM users. The StarTeam client handles bug tracking linked to CRs and files etc. I really love that capability. Until SVN has bugtracking built in I don’t think it will be as useful.

]]> By: Joe White http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5441 Joe White Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:03:00 +0000 http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5441 Heh. <br> <br>The GUI of choice is TortoiseSVN (<a target="_new" href="http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/" rel="nofollow">http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/</a>). It's an Explorer shell extension, so your GUI is Windows Explorer. It adds icon overlays, so you can tell at a glance whether a file is in version control and whether it's been modified. You can do everything you need to do -- check out, update, commit, view diffs, view logs, browse the repository, resolve conflicts, etc. -- through a right-click menu. You can even right-click and view diffs inside File Open and File Save dialogs. Pretty cool stuff. Heh.

The GUI of choice is TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/). It’s an Explorer shell extension, so your GUI is Windows Explorer. It adds icon overlays, so you can tell at a glance whether a file is in version control and whether it’s been modified. You can do everything you need to do — check out, update, commit, view diffs, view logs, browse the repository, resolve conflicts, etc. — through a right-click menu. You can even right-click and view diffs inside File Open and File Save dialogs. Pretty cool stuff.

]]> By: Kevin Berry http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5440 Kevin Berry Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:11:00 +0000 http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5440 Change UI to GUI in my previous post. :-) Change UI to GUI in my previous post. :-)

]]> By: Kevin Berry http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5439 Kevin Berry Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:09:00 +0000 http://blog.excastle.com/2005/11/18/subversion-branch/#comment-5439 How does the subversion UI compare to StarTeam's UI? I took a look at subversion a while back and it seemed like there was no UI. <br> <br>Thanks, <br>Kevin. How does the subversion UI compare to StarTeam’s UI? I took a look at subversion a while back and it seemed like there was no UI.

Thanks,

Kevin.

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