By now you will most likely be aware that Subversion knocks the spots off of it’s competitors, however you may not be aware of the wealth of clients that work with Subversion.

TortoiseSVN is by far the most popular Subversion Client, so much so that the TortoiseSVN project on SourceForge boasts 5,113,930 downloads (wow).

Adam Pash has done a great write up over at lifehacker.com which I strongly recommend you read if you want a quick start guide to using TortoiseSVN.

Windows Only!!!

If like me you don’t do the majority of your work on Windows you may look at TortoiseSVN with envy, however all is not lost OSX users can use the SCCPlugin which although incomplete will give you nice icons and easy access to commit, update, etc…

Linux users get the short straw when it comes to Graphical Clients that integrate into the Shell however I think the general consensus is that most Linux users are usually knee deep in a terminal window anyway and are generally more comfortable with the command line interface, however TortoiseSVN for gnome and/or KDE would be very nice .

We installed the open ssl build of apache on our SVN cluster today and deployed the SSL cert, which means we now offer subversion over SSL to all users as standard.

To make use of the SSL layer simply use https instead of the http protocol that you have been using to date for your subversion server (e.g. https://svn.codespaces.com/[your_domain]/[your_repository])

We were originally only going to offer SSL to higher end customers but thankfully we came to our senses and realized that everybody needs SSL for transferring code…

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