RapidSVN

RapidSVN is a free, open source, cross-platform, simple, efficient and multilingual application that has been designed from the offset to act as a GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the Subversion (SVN) revision system.

Features at a glance

With RapidSVN. users will be able to access all of Subversion’s features using an easy-to-use interface that is specifically designed for beginners, but usable for advanced Subversion users. The application very flexible and includes a Subversion client C++ API.

The application comes with built-in support for Unicode characters and its translated in many languages, including English, German, Portuguese, French, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Ukrainian.

Getting started with RapidSVN

After installation, you will be able to start the application from the main menu of your operating system. It’s graphical user interface is pretty simple and straightforward, comprised of a status view area that displays connection errors and other information, a connection manager area where you can manage your Subversion connections, as well as the main view area.

From the Preferences dialog, users can set general options, such as purge of temporary files on program exit, commit log message or reset Flat Mode on program startup, add the default text editor, file explorer, diff utility and merge tool, as well as to enable essential authentication options.

Under the hood and supported OSes

RapidSVN is a very fast application, as it is written entirely in the C++ programming language, using the wxWidgets framework for its graphical user interface (GUI). It’s a portable application that supports GNU/Linux, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Availability and supported platforms

At the moment, RapidSVN is distributed primarily as a universal sources archive, containing all the source code the application, which must be optimized for your hardware platform (32-bit and 64-bit are supported at this time) prior to installation.

What is new in this release:

• The number of modified files is shown in the folder browser.
• Folders with modified files are shown in bold.
• There are numerous bugfixes and performance enhancements.

What is new in version 0.10:

• User-visible changes:
• 632 New Feature: Ability to commit specific files
• 80 Enhancement: Remember filenames, log entries between calls
• 128 Enhancement: Add special folder item if folder/subfolder contains modified file
• 477 Enhancement: Concurrent actions lacked visual feedback
• 601 Enhancement: Add "review" functionality to commit dialog
• 638 Enhancement: Adding files recursively
• 655 Enhancement: Remeber last directory when adding an existing working copy
• 413 Fixed: Focus lost from file view after app switch
• 548 Fixed: Mac: Update dialog didnt respond to ENTER key
• 599 Fixed: Refresh with update: DnD on file list failed
• 634 Fixed: Mac: Filelist order broken (first files and then folders, folders in wrong order)
• Developer-visible changes:
• 649 Win32: Support for Visual Studio 2005
• Work in progress (not completed):
• 526 Filelist update fails when there are special characetrs in the uri
• 555 Linux+Mac: locale files not installed by default
• 654 Error when open folder into tree with Cyrilic characters in name.

What is new in version 0.9.8:

• This release is under the GPLv3. It has display filters, basic support for Subversion 1.5, recursive reversion, and a toolbar tool to toggle "Show subdirectories".
• There are many bugfixes.

Requirements:

• Apache Subversion
• wxWidgets