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ZigVersion

ZigVersion - 1.0 Beta5

graphical subversion client

All Time: (2.5)
Version 1.0 Beta5: (2.5)
Selected Version: 1.0 Beta5
Release Date: 2006-06-12
License: Beta
Downloads (version 1.0 Beta5): 357
Downloads (all versions): 9,134

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Product Description:

A graphical Subverions client for Mac OS X - Instead of simply reproducing subversion command line concepts as a graphical interface, we looked at the typical workflows of professional programmers and designed an interface around them.

What's new in this version:

  • Lots of performance improvements (speed and memory consumption)
  • Progress sheets for Update, Checkout, Revert, Delete, and Add
  • Gracefully deal with working copies being deleted off disk
  • Background threads are being shutdown properly now
  • New background thread to watch the server for updates - Out of date status is now automatically updated
  • Tooltips on the status column to describe the cryptic stuff there
  • Previous comments button on the Review and Check In dialog
  • Upgraded Subversion library to 1.3.2
  • History drawer gets updated on refresh
  • Sorting in history drawer is newest first by default
  • History drawer sorting and size are now being saved
  • Limit for number of files that can be monitored is now dynamically set - tends to be around 10k for most systems
  • Fixed problem with http/https lookups failing when more than 1024 files were being monitored
  • No longer monitoring unversioned files/directories
  • Lots and lots of little bug fixes

Some of the known issues that you may run into testing out this release:

  • If you have run into a bug, please grab the log immediately. It is deleted on every run of the app. The log is located at ~/Library/Logs/ZigVersion.log.
  • If you connect to a repository using svn+ssh, you must use an ssh key and agent (see Directions for using svn+ssh with ZigVersion ).
  • You can not check out files - only directories. This is a limitation of subversion's working copy structure.
  • Directories that are not checked out, but show their childrens status (M for modified, etc) can not be checked in. They act just like any other directory that isn't checked out.
  • Running the command line svn client to update, commit, etc (operations that write to the working copy) when ZigVersion is open may cause unexpected errors in ZigVersion.
  • You can not check out the top level of the repository you connect to. You will either need to create subdirectories with the command line tool (on a new repository), or connect to the repository one level higher (if you used a url that was more specific than the top-level repository url)
  • Drag and Drop is partially supported.
  • There's no way to see if a status shown is from the item displaying it, or one of it's children.
  • If you have many nested directories open and update the top one, the app may be unresponsive for several seconds while it gets status of the directories.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
  • Universal Binary

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Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0 Beta5:
Overall Rating: (2.5) Features: (2.0) Support: (1.0)
Ease of Use: (4.0) Quality / Stability: (2.0) Price: (5.0)
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ZigVersion CommentaryKeep it up! - Version: 1.0 Beta6, 7/12/2006 08:20AM PST

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zimbop
Good to see a native SVN client progressing. It's really not at a state at which I can switch to it from SmartSVN (which has all the diffing and compare etc mentioned elsewhere), but this is something I'd certainly consider in the future. Hopefully not too long before a really strong native OSX client is available.
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ZigVersion ReviewCrashes on MacBook Pro - Version: 1.0 Beta5, 6/27/2006 11:28AM PST

colfetski
Don't know whether this is a Pentium processor issue, but ZigVersion crashes whenever I try to check something in...
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ZigVersion ReviewWhat you say !! - Version: 1.0 Beta5, 6/15/2006 01:43PM PST

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nickzman
There's no way to make ZigVersion only show files that are modified/conflicted/unknown/etc., or at least none that I could find. There also appears to be no support for diffing changed files, diffing two revisions of the repository, or resolving conflicts. The lack of these features kill the product for me unfortunately.

ZigVersion also lacks the ability to lock/unlock files, and shows file sizes in terms of bytes instead of something more useful.

I'd be willing to try it again once these features are added, though.
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