Ankh or Visual?
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SVN, that is.
With VisualSVN you have to have TortoiseSVN installed as it uses TSVN to do the work. So, if you go with VSVN than you get the best of both worlds for a small fee ($49 USD). If you are looking for free... ANKH. ANKH has its own interfaces that are slightly different than TSVN. I also like SourceGear DiffMerge[^] (free) that you can use with TSVN: TSVN Setting:
"C:\Program Files\SourceGear\DiffMerge\DiffMerge.exe" /t1=Base /t2=Mine %base %mineTo answer your question: Visual SVN b/c I like the TSVN interface for Committing and the use of SourceGear's DiffMerge in TSVN. -
Ankh...I've been using for about 6 mos. and I like it! Plays nice with visual and it's free. Mike
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unless you expect an INTEGRATED development environment :)
peterchen wrote:
unless you expect an INTEGRATED development environment
In which case, you could just integrate Tortoise with VS on your own quite easily, and it works really well: http://blog.vorpal.cc/category/development/tortoisesvn-in-visual-studio.html[^] :-D
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I agree. The latest version of Ankh is very good, and the price is right. I actually use both - Tortoise in Explorer and Anhk in Visual Studio. Both are great products. If you haven't used Ankh in a while, I suggest a fresh look may be worthwhile.
In my last contract I started with Tortoise and near the end additionally used Ankh (2.x). Both were fine, though I understand Ankh 1.x was ropey, but I never used that. Current contract is back to SourceSafe. :(
Kevin
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SVN, that is.
Tortoise + Visual SVN is pretty damned good. Never eve heard of Ankh, though...
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unless you expect an INTEGRATED development environment :)
I use both Ankh AND Tortoise. While VS Intagration of Ankh might be useful, it is dismissable and for me is just some superfluous thing. In fact, while using both Ankh and Tortoise I noticed that Ankh many times missed some commits. What I'm saying is that when I did a commit on the entire Solution, not all changes were committed. I noticed this when I was browsing the Project Directory in Windows Explorer and noticed it still had pending changes in it. After I refreshed the project on VS, I saw that indeed the Solution commit did not commit all the changes. IMO the bottom line is that Ankh is nice, but not really necessary, and sometimes can cause some strange behaviour. Tortoise has all you need and it is easy to use. I wouldn't install Ankh again if I had to reinstall VS. Regards, Fábio
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SVN, that is.
On my team we used Ankh for a while, but discontinued use because we found it to be too much of a drag on performance (every time you create or delete a file in VS, there is a huge delay). Also, ankh seemed to get buggy every so often and screw up the working copy. Plain old tortoise has done well for us.
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A lot of the previous posts suggest Tortoise. Tortoise is clearly a great extension of the Windows Explorer, a must have for SVN source control; however, it does nothing to Visual Studio, so is kind of missing the point of the discussion a little. I use AnkhSVN in VS, and they recently released a completely new redesigned version, it works fast and reliable now - and it is open source, so fine for me. I tried VisualSVN for a little while but stopped using it, forgot why. In either case both do not integrate with Trac, but Tortoise does, so I see in VS what is changed via Ankh, but use Tortoise to check in.
I tried the latest version with my team's project... still too slow and occasionally buggy. It ended up being more hassle than IDE integration is worth to fix things when it would occasionally corrupt the working copy.
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SVN, that is.
The real question is free Studio integration or not. Ankh bugs me on occasion, but overall it's a good tool. Visual SVN I haven't tried, but I assume it's a better product.
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SVN, that is.
I use both Ankh and TortoiseSVN. Current version of Ankh seems to be stable and performs well compared to previous versions.
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I use both Ankh AND Tortoise. While VS Intagration of Ankh might be useful, it is dismissable and for me is just some superfluous thing. In fact, while using both Ankh and Tortoise I noticed that Ankh many times missed some commits. What I'm saying is that when I did a commit on the entire Solution, not all changes were committed. I noticed this when I was browsing the Project Directory in Windows Explorer and noticed it still had pending changes in it. After I refreshed the project on VS, I saw that indeed the Solution commit did not commit all the changes. IMO the bottom line is that Ankh is nice, but not really necessary, and sometimes can cause some strange behaviour. Tortoise has all you need and it is easy to use. I wouldn't install Ankh again if I had to reinstall VS. Regards, Fábio
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Command line client.
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