Comparison of Subversion clients

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.

Descriptions

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.

Cornerstone is a GUI for Subversion written with Xcode for MacOS X.

SmartSVN provides a similar Explorer integration, but also can be used as a standalone SVN client for different platforms. SmartSVN is available in three different editions: A free Foundation edition with fewer features and two commercial editions called Professional and Enterprise with the full feature set.

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 Subversive[1][2] for use with Eclipse. Delphi XE Subversion integration is built into the Delphi IDE.

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
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 2.6.12735 October 5, 2016 (2016-10-05) No Diff, blame, history, properties
Cornerstone Xcode macOS Proprietary, free trials available Standalone GUI English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 3.1 February 8, 2018 (2018-02-08) No Diff, blame, history, properties
CODESYS SVN C#, SharpSvn Microsoft Windows proprietary, trials can be negotiated SVN plugin for CODESYS V3 English, German http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file V4.1.0.2 (based on SVN 1.9.4) November 3, 2016 (2016-11-03) No Diff, merge, log
eSvn C++, Qt Unix-like operating systems (GNU/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 (2007-07-16).[3] For Windows: July 12, 2007 (2007-07-12)[4] No ?
kdesvn C++, Qt Linux, Unix, Mac OS X GPL Konqueror, Dolphin, standalone English file, http, https, (k)svn, (k)svn+file, (k)svn+http, (k)svn+https, (k)svn+ssh 2.0.0 December 4, 2016 (2016-12-04)[5] Yes ?
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 (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 (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 0.17 [8] June 23, 2017 (2017-06-23)[9] ? ?
RapidSVN C++, wxWidgets Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, many more GPL GUI, standalone Unicode, many 0.12.1 June 28, 2012 (2012-06-28) No External
SubTile XUL, Javascript Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (Any with Xulrunner or Firefox) GPL, Mozilla Public License, Apache License GUI, standalone English http, https, svn, svn+ssh 0.2 May 3, 2016 (2016-05-03)[10] No Diff, merge, revision graph
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 (2012-06-25)[11] ? ?
TortoiseSVN C++, MFC Microsoft Windows (32/64-bit) GPL Windows Shell (Explorer) 54 languages (including en) http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file, svn+XXX 1.13.1 October 31, 2019 (2019-10-31) Yes Diff, merge, Revision Tree, blame
Trac Python Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Modified BSD web-based [31 languages] file 1.2.4[12] July 17, 2019 (2019-07-17)[13] Yes Log
Version Control for engineers - Windows freeware GUI, standalone English http, https, svn, file 0.20 November 10, 2016 (2016-11-10)[14] No Internal image diff, external diff, diff for MS Word doc, MS Visio VSD drawings, DWG and DXF drawings, Kompas CDW, commit logging
ViewVC Python http, https "two-clause Berkeley-style" web-based English http, https, svn, svn+ssh, file 1.1.23 November 4, 2014 (2014-11-04)[15] ? 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 7.1.2 July 31, 2019 (2019-07-31)[16] Yes ?
Xcode Objective-C, Cocoa macOS Proprietary, free[17] Xcode IDE English 9.4.1
Support for SVN was dropped in Xcode 10		 June 19, 2018 (2018-06-19) ? ?

Standalone Subversion clients comparison table
Client name Free Network protocols Diff Merge Browse remote repository
Cornerstone No file, http, https, svn, svn+file, svn+http, svn+https, svn+ssh Yes Yes Yes
eSvnYeshttp, svn???
kdesvnYesfile, http, https, (k)svn, (k)svn+file, (k)svn+http, (k)svn+https, (k)svn+sshYesYesYes
QSvnYesYes??
RapidSVNYesinternalinternalYes
SubTileYeshttp, https, svn, svn+sshYesYesYes

See also
  • Revision control

References
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  2. http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/
  3. eSvn - Browse /eSvn/0.6.12 at SourceForge.net
  4. eSvn - Browse /eSvn/0.6.11 at SourceForge.net
  5. Released Version 2.0.0 – Kdesvn project
  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
  10. SubTile Project
  11. http://svnnotifier.tigris.org/source/browse/*checkout*/svnnotifier/trunk/ReleaseNotes.txt
  12. Trac Changelog
  13. Trac Changelog
  14. ″Version Control for engineers″ page on Sourceforge
  15. viewvc Documents & files:
  16. VisualSVN | Version History
  17. Xcode on the Mac App Store
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