Subclipse is awesome, and not difficult

Posted At : March 29, 2007 2:28 AM | Posted By : Trond Ulseth
Related Categories: Tool tips, Eclipse, ColdFusion

I'm not a very advanced user of SVN, and up until now I've used TortoiseSVN as the client of my choice. However being that I now have a mac at home I needed to find a SVN client for OSX. However I could not find anything that looked as easy to use as Tortoise.

I've been using (CF)Eclipse for quite a while, but for some reason I always thought that Subclipse is a advanced/difficult SVN client. However, realizing that I should probably learn it I decided to go ahead and (try to) use that on the mac.

To make it short: It's awesome. It's every bit as easy to use as Tortoise, and the fact that you create a new Eclipse project as part of setting up your local working copy is one of those things that really makes it worth while.

I've just scratched the surface of Subclipse yet, but it is the SVN client of choice for me from now on - yes, even on Windows machines.

Some of you might be thinking something along the lines of "Instead of just going on about how easy and great it is - why can't he tell us how to use it?". Well my friends, I see no reason to, because there is already a VERY GOOD explanation available, and which is the one I used to get started. It's written by Aaron West and can be found at his blog.

So Aaron, if you ever read this, Thanx a lot mate!

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You'll probably also appreciate SCPlugin, it provides icon overlays for you subversion folders in Finder (as Tortoise does), it also adds context menus similar to Tortoise. I did find I had to do the initial checkout using SCPlugin's context menu however, before it started working, but others haven't had this issue and it was no big deal.

I use this in conjunction with subclipse, and also the command line as much as possible as it's pretty quick when all you want to do is update or commit.

With subclipse if your subversion server updates to the 1.4 binaries you may get an error, so you just have to use native Java instead of JavaHL in the subclipse settings (may be Win only problem tho).

http://scplugin.tigris.org/

# Posted By Richard Leggett | 3/29/07 5:17 AM

Trond, you got SVN set up on your Mac then?? if so how did that go?

# Posted By Andy Jarrett | 3/29/07 6:52 AM

@Richard: I think that having the svn stuff right in there in eclipse is all I really need. I see myself stop using Tortoise on Windows as well. So I'm happy, but thank you for the tip anyways.

@Andy: I've not messed around with setting up my own repository either on windows or mac. In work we have an account with cvsdude.com, and for newBee (which is the reason I wanted a SVN client on the mac) I use RIAForges SVN :)

# Posted By Trond Ulseth | 3/29/07 7:32 AM

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