A TortoiseSVN replacement for Ubuntu

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I work on a number of open source projects, and many of them use the Subversion version control system to manage their code.  Before my switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux (which I am still ecstatically happy with btw), I became a big fan of TortoiseSVN, an extremely useful Subversion client that integrates itself directly into Windows Explorer.

TortoiseSVN is simple to use, very intuitive, and does everything I need from it.  You simply right click on a folder you want to store your checked out files in, give it the URL of the Subversion server, and it checks out the code, updates it, checks it back in (if you have permission), performs file diffs ….. basically everything you need to do is integrated right in with your file browser.

So, I miss this in Ubuntu, as TortoiseSVN is Windows only.  However, I recently found a replacement, which integrates nicely with Nautilus, the Ubuntu file browser.  While it is not as slick as TortoiseSVN, it works in a very similar way.  You right click on a folder, and have a selection of SVN operations you can perform.

See http://marius.scurtescu.com/2005/08/24/nautilus_scripts_for_subversion for details.

Nautilus Subversion Menu

Nautilus Subversion Dialog

One thing that is missing from this is the display of icons in the file browser (Nautilus) to inform you of the state of a file – checked out, modified, not added to source control etc.  Another person has developed a solution to this, which unfortunately I have not, yet, been able to get working, but perhaps you will have more luck.

See http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/09/12/extremely-noddy-tortoisesvn-for-the-gnome-desktop for details on this.
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Published by Shane O'Sullivan

I am a software engineer and manager from Ireland. I spent 7 years working in Ireland from 2003 – 2010, then ten years in Silicon Valley from 2010 to 2020. In California I spent about 6.5 years at Facebook Engineering, the last three of which I was an engineering manager in the Ads organisation focusing on customer facing products for creating and managing ads. At Stripe I built the Developer Productivity organisation, with teams that were responsible for the use of the Ruby language, testing infrastructure, documentation, developer tooling (e.g. IDE integrations) and more. At Promise, I was Head of Engineering from 2018 – 2020, responsible for building the first few iterations of our products, hiring for all product roles, meeting with clients and investors, and anything else needed to get a tiny startup bootstrapped and successful. Now I’m back in Ireland, working on my next company. Coming soon (as of early 2023!). This blog contains my various musings on all things technical/interesting on the interweb and beyond.

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8 thoughts on “A TortoiseSVN replacement for Ubuntu”

  4. Thanks Phil for the link. And thanks Shane for the post. I was pulling my hair out having to do SVN via the command line.

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