Versions Svn For Mac

I am a big fan of Versions (Subversion client for Mac OS, it is compatible with any standard SVN server like I guess VisualSVN). The big pro of Versions is that along with the usual features of an SVN client (up, commit, diff, etc.), it displays the number of new commits that I haven't retrieved yet on several repositories, like this (the 2 in the yellow box next to main is the number of new.
Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent.

Development versions are released every time a developer makes a change to Dolphin, several times every day! Using development versions enables you to use the latest and greatest improvements to the project. They are however less tested than stable versions of the emulator. TortoiseSVN is one of the most powerful Apache subversion (SVN) clients that you can find, but if when you are migrating to Mac, TortoiseSVN by The TortoiseSVN team is no longer a viable solution. However, you can replace all functions of TortoiseSVN for Mac using a utility from this list with alternatives.

I wrote an article about a year ago, about svn (Subversion) being missing in Mountain Lion (10.8) and how to install it manually. Since then, I’ve got a new mac and have used myself this post to install it on the new machine. Since then there has also been new versions of subversion but unfortunately all my software are not compatible with it. So I’ve been looking into this topic again and wanted to share.

Another way to install svn on mac is to use a ditribution package from wandisco. They are available here. Do not use the packages on CollabNet which are outdated.
Unzip the .pkg file and double click on it and follow the instructions to have it installed.

I still like it better with Homebrew since it makes it very easy to upgrade the packages and switch between packages.

To find out the version currently active with Homebrew:

You can check the versions of subversion which are available using:

This will return multiple lines, one per version, each containing a version number and the checkout command e.g.:

Choose the version you want to install e.g. here 1.8.1, switch Homebrew’s prefix,checkout the package and install it:

Then reset the formula:

You can then switch between versions using brew switch (which updates the symlink in /usr/local/bin to the specified formula version in the Homebrew cellar) e.g.:

Of course mechanism can be used for any other Homebrew package.

If you get errors in XCode while accessing working copies created with a newer version, you might need to link the newer version into XCode by doing the following:

Create a backup directory for the svn binaries currently used by XCode
Moving the current binaries to the backup folder
Linking the binaries of the new version installed with Homebrew into Xcode (as a replacement for the moved ones)

You can do that by executing the following and replacing 1.7.4 by the actual subversion version you want to use in XCode:

Note that you can also use Homebrew-versions instead. It provides multiple formulas for different versions of existing packages e.g. subversion1.6 and subversion1.7. If you use it, you will of course not be able to upgrade from 1.7 to 1.8 but only from 1.7.2 to 1.7.3 but it’s maybe what you are after…

You can install from Homebrew-versions using:

You’ll notice that Homebrew-versions only has packages for subversion 1.6 and 1.7. But I guess 1.8 should come soon.

So there are quite a few ways to install subversion on your mac and handle different versions. The one I like best is still just installing it with Homebrew and switching to the one I use most. The other versions are still available by other switching to a particular version as shown above or by using the svn command from a particular version in the Homebrew Cellar e.g.

Find packages for your operating system:

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Versions Svn For Mac Catalina

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Centos Linux ¶

CentOS project (client and server)
CollabNet (supported and certified by CollabNet; requires registration)
WANdisco (supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)

Versions Svn For Mac High Sierra

Debian Linux ¶

Debian Project (maintained by Debian Project; client and server; svnserve is part of the subversion package, mod_dav_svn is in the separate libapache2-mod-svn package (formerly libapache2-svn))
WANdisco (supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)

Fedora Linux ¶

FreeBSD ¶

Mac Svn Tool

HP-UX ¶

HP Porting Centre (maintained by Connect Internet Solutions Ltd.)

NetBSD ¶

OpenBSD ¶

OpenBSD Project (client and server; svnserve is part of the subversion package, mod_dav_svn is in the separate ap2-subversion package)

openSUSE ¶

Part of the the standard distribution. svnserve is part of the subversion package, mod_dav_svn is in the separate subversion-server package.
Community packages are available from the openSUSE project, also for the 1.8 series of releases.

Mac OS X ¶

Best Svn Client For Mac

An old version of Subversion is shipped with MacOS X. See the open source section of Apple's web site for more information.
Fink (requires Fink; maintained by Christian Schaffner)
MacPorts (requires MacPorts)
WANdisco (client and server; supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)

Red Hat Linux ¶

Free Svn Client For Mac

Red Hat (client and server)
CollabNet (supported and certified by CollabNet; requires registration)
WANdisco (supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)

Solaris ¶

WANdisco (supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)

SUSE Linux ¶

On SUSE Linux Enterprise: Enable the SDK. svnserve is part of the subversion package, mod_dav_svn is in the separate subversion-server package.
Community packages are available from the openSUSE project, also for the 1.8 series of releases.
WANdisco (supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)

Ubuntu Linux ¶

Ubuntu Packages (maintained by Ubuntu Project; client and server; svnserve is part of the subversion package, mod_dav_svn is in the separate libapache2-svn package)
WANdisco (supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)

Windows ¶

Versions Svn For Mac Os

CollabNet (supported and certified by CollabNet; requires registration)
SlikSVN (32- and 64-bit client MSI; maintained by Bert Huijben, SharpSvn project)
TortoiseSVN (optionally installs 32- and 64-bit command line tools and svnserve; supported and maintained by the TortoiseSVN project)
VisualSVN (32- and 64-bit client and server; supported and maintained by VisualSVN)
WANdisco (32- and 64-bit client and server; supported and certified by WANdisco; requires registration)