I Love Tortoise
Wednesday 26th December, 2007 05:30 Comments: 1
No, I'm not quoting Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, I'm talking about TortoiseSVN:
A Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension.
TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don't need to get a loan or pay a full years salary to use it.
I'd originally started using it to grab nmap's latest source code, but I've recently started using it properly, modifying source code and submitting unified diffs that can be generated by TortoiseSVN. You get little green ticks for files that it's monitoring, and red exclamation marks when a folder/file is modified. If/when you screw up, simply right click the file and revert the file. It also has some cool tools for merging files. It works fine on Vista (although I must admit, explorer.exe has crashed a couple of times, but that might equally be down to Truecrypt's encrypted hard drive). Perhaps there are better Windows SVN clients out there, but this looked like the best/easiest to use at the time, and the more I get to grips with it the more I love it.
Anyway, to make this a bit less geeky (although geeks will probably notice a potential reference to LAMP), here's the quote from Anchorman:
Brick Tamland: I love... carpet.
[pause]
Brick Tamland: I love... desk.
Ron Burgundy: Brick, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp.
Ron Burgundy: Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp. I love lamp.
A Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension.
TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don't need to get a loan or pay a full years salary to use it.
I'd originally started using it to grab nmap's latest source code, but I've recently started using it properly, modifying source code and submitting unified diffs that can be generated by TortoiseSVN. You get little green ticks for files that it's monitoring, and red exclamation marks when a folder/file is modified. If/when you screw up, simply right click the file and revert the file. It also has some cool tools for merging files. It works fine on Vista (although I must admit, explorer.exe has crashed a couple of times, but that might equally be down to Truecrypt's encrypted hard drive). Perhaps there are better Windows SVN clients out there, but this looked like the best/easiest to use at the time, and the more I get to grips with it the more I love it.
Anyway, to make this a bit less geeky (although geeks will probably notice a potential reference to LAMP), here's the quote from Anchorman:
Brick Tamland: I love... carpet.
[pause]
Brick Tamland: I love... desk.
Ron Burgundy: Brick, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp.
Ron Burgundy: Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?
Brick Tamland: I love lamp. I love lamp.
Sadie - Monday 7th January, 2008 01:33 Seconded. Using the Subclipse plugin for Eclipse resulted in a load of confusing errors, locks and inconsistencies, and it all got very confusing. I switched to using TortoiseSVN, and was eventually able to sort them all out. The integration with Windows is very clean.
Only one thing I'd like to change: it would be nice if I could turn off the noise when there's an error. A bunch of them in a row can get old fast. To take a parallel example, when an alarm goes off in a cockpit the first thing the pilot does is usually to turn the alarm off: when you're trying to solve a problem, the last thing you need is an alarm in your ears stopping you from thinking clearly.
Only one thing I'd like to change: it would be nice if I could turn off the noise when there's an error. A bunch of them in a row can get old fast. To take a parallel example, when an alarm goes off in a cockpit the first thing the pilot does is usually to turn the alarm off: when you're trying to solve a problem, the last thing you need is an alarm in your ears stopping you from thinking clearly.