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Does anyone know of a similar app for subversion?

svnx for macs? i use eclipse with the subclipse plugin plus tkdiff. i haven't had trouble using svn command-line...git, though, constantly behaves unexpectedly and requires vigilant reading of the manual. i've reverted projects back to svn just for the sanity (also, as a team project, i don't want other people wasting time on version control, especially when they require user friendly interfaces, which is lacking in git. tig is cool, but not user friendly enough for certain team members).

btw, mercurial is a pretty sweet alternative. i've already been seduced by github, tho.... i wish they could be repohub instead....

I'm a big mercurial fan, I tried out git to be able to co pare both fairly, but the first impression i got from git was that it required much more reading than hg to get a hang of it, even for basic stuff. Or maybe it's just that the mercurial documentation/first steps docs is more clear.

You would be correct. I've been using Git longer than Mercurial, but I feel that I have a better grasp of how to use Mercurial. That said, Git is exponentially more powerful in my experience. I'm rather enjoying getting to know it.

I have not tried github properly, so I can't make a fair comparison, but bitbucket is extremely nice. Everything feels just right.

bitbucket is awesome! thx.

Well, there's this: http://hg-git.github.com/

"This is the Hg-Git plugin for Mercurial, adding the ability to push to and pull from a Git server repository from Hg. This means you can collaborate on Git based projects from Hg, or use a Git server as a collaboration point for a team with developers using both Git and Hg."

Never liked svnx - seems to be very unstable/slow (or it's just our svn server). Coming back to my question - I was thinking about exactly the same application as tig (which is awesome btw) but for subversion (not gui but based based on ncurses).

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