Re: Good SVN client?

On 2008-06-30, larwe <zwsdotcom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At work we're migrating from Source"Safe" to SVN. There is a
strong focus on GUI-based tools for this, and the dev
environment is Windows- only.

I'm currently using TortoiseSVN which looks very pretty but is
excruciating, frustrating and confusing in the extreme to use;
absolutely nothing works the way you'd expect. Is there a
simple-to- use Win32 SVN client that does NOT have shell
integration, and that can:
[...]

Meld and SmartSVN is the only decent GUI SVN clients I've found
(I've tried at least a half-dozen). Meld is strictly for
managing a working copy and doesn't browse repositories. It's
a GTK app so in theory it could run under Windows, but I
wouldn't bet any money on it.

SmartSVN does what you're asking for (AFAICT).

Don't bother trying RapidSVN. I've tried it repeatedly during
the last couple years and it's still pre-alpha. It crashes
constantly, it locks up, when browsing a repository it
mysteriously omits large chunks of files, it fails with
mysterious errors when trying to fetch/view/compare certain
files that SmartSVN has no trouble with, and so on. All in
all, I've found it to be useless for day-to-day work.

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