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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.

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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.

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

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Name Programming language, toolkit Operating system License Integration Languages Network protocols Current version Last release date Server functionality Visualization
AnkhSVN C#, SharpSvn Microsoft Windows Apache License Microsoft Visual Studio (all editions except Express) English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 2.9.87 November 9, 2021;
3 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 For *nix OSs: July 16, 2007;
17 years ago (2007-07-16).[4] For Windows: July 12, 2007;
17 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 July 7, 2009;
15 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 July 26, 2009;
15 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 0.19 [8] July 19, 2023;
17 months ago (2023-07-19)[9] 		? Diff, blame, history
RapidSVN C++, wxWidgets Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, many more GPL GUI, standalone Unicode, many 0.12.1 June 28, 2012;
12 years ago (2012-06-28) 		No External
SVN Notifier C# Microsoft Windows GPL GUI, standalone. It needs TortoiseSVN installed. English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.9.3 June 25, 2012;
12 years ago (2012-06-25)[10] 		? ?
TortoiseSVN C++, MFC Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit/Arm64) GPL Windows Shell (Explorer) 54 languages (including English)[11] http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, svn+XXX 1.14.7 April 16, 2024;
8 months ago (2024-04-16)[12] 		No Diff, merge, Revision Tree, blame
Trac Python Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Modified BSD web-based 33 languages (including English)[13] file 1.4.3[14] May 9, 2021;
3 years ago (2021-05-09)[15] 		Yes Log
ViewVC Python http, https "two-clause Berkeley-style" web-based English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.2.1 March 26, 2020;
4 years ago (2020-03-26)[16] 		? 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 October 6, 2020;
4 years ago (2020-10-06)[17] 		Yes ?
Xcode Objective-C, Cocoa macOS Proprietary, free[18] Xcode IDE English 9.4.1
Support for SVN was dropped in Xcode 10 		June 19, 2018;
6 years ago (2018-06-19) 		? ?

Standalone Subversion clients comparison table

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Client name Free Network protocols Diff Merge Browse remote repository
eSvn Yes http, svn ? ? ?
QSvn Yes Yes ? ?
RapidSVN Yes internal internal Yes

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Cei, Ugo; Lucidi, Piergiorgio (2010). Alfresco 3 Web Services. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. n.p. ISBN 9781849511537. Retrieved 4 March 2013. 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".
  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 Archived 2012-07-12 at archive.today
  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... Archived 2012-07-13 at archive.today
  8. ^ "Release v0.19 · rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs". GitHub.
  9. ^ "Release v0.19 · rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs". GitHub.
  10. ^ Release notes tigris.org [dead link‍]
  11. ^ TortoiseSVN localization
  12. ^ TortoiseSVN Downloads - Current Version
  13. ^ TracL10N - Localization of Trac
  14. ^ Trac Changelog
  15. ^ Trac Changelog
  16. ^ ViewVC Changelog at GitHub
  17. ^ VisualSVN | Version History
  18. ^ Xcode on the Mac App Store
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