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Version Control for Mac? (with GUI)

by Richard Skala · in General Discussion · 11/09/2009 (10:34 pm) · 4 replies

Are there any good Version Control programs with a GUI for Mac OS X? What Mac OS X version control programs does anyone recommend?

I found one called svnX, but you can only configure clients with it. Is there one like this for Mac where you can configure both clients and "repositories"? I'm not that familiar with Mac OS X and the Mac Terminal, so I'd prefer to have a some sort of GUI interface, whether it be a standalone application or integrated into Finder (like how Tortoise SVN is in Windows).

Thanks for any info.
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Employee Michael Perry
ZombieShortbus
#1
11/09/2009 (10:49 pm)
Client = Versions

Server = SVN. Just install the OS X SVN package. You will most likely want to configure your server via a terminal on a dedicated box.

Associate Rene Damm
#2
11/09/2009 (11:42 pm)

If you aren't forced to use Subversion, then I absolutely recommend staying wide away from it. It's pestilence. (However, when you're forced to use it, "Versions" which Mich recommends above is indeed a nice front-end. The newest version of Cornerstone seems to be good as well.)

For my own work, I used to use Mercurial but after it irrecoverably corrupted a repository when its process got killed mid-work, I switched to git and haven't looked back since.

There's a graphical front-end for the Mac called (unimaginatively) GitX which, though being fairly minimal, works extremely well.

Torque 3D Owner Aun Taraseina
#3
11/10/2009 (12:13 am)
For the client, I use SCPlugin it's free and works pretty much the same way tortoise does.

Torque 3D Owner Ronny Bangsund
Torque Cheerleaders
#4
11/10/2009 (4:41 pm)
We use Subversion extensively where I work, and use other odd stuff built on it:
reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/

I've never had problem with SVN, and you can choose storage methods when setting it up.