SnailSVN Lite: SVN for Finder for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By sicolex

  Hard to Use

  Hard to Use. "git svn" is a better solution (I am a Git fan)

  
  
• By NamDo66

  Good app/Diff broken in latest version

  If you like TortoiseSVN on Windows, this is a good replacement for it in Windows. It works well for me … except that with the update to Version 1.1, Diff is no longer working. Pshaw.

  
  
• By ScottConway

  Free version too limited - possibly buggy

  First off I apologize to CleverIdea for originally clicking on the not helpful link on his review. I had downloaded SnailSVN and added an existing checked out project to it did 90+% of what I wanted it to do right off the bat. Awesome for a free version, let alone a 1.0 version. I was able to look at the history logs and do comparisons - it was very nice! So after clicking the not helpful I went back to finder and all of a sudden it was like it did not remember what the working set was. Even though the icons were there and correct the only options I have was checkout, export, create repo, add to working set. Trying to re-add the working set gave me the error that one working set was allowed. So now I cannot use the free version even on the working set I first setup. Being a free version I can understand limiting the number of working sets. Though I would argue 2-5 instead of 1 to show that the product CAN handle multiple working sets. Seeing that it cannot handle a single working set well means it has a ways to go to be worth money.

  
  
• By alat34

  Best I’ve Found for Windows

  TortoiseSVN is the best for PC and it’s free. There’s a few clients for Windows that are paid. This is the best free client for Windows and it gets better with every release. Keep up the good work Langui.net!

  
  
• By eric90066

  Perhaps the best for Windows, which is not saying much

  I was able to get this app to work, but it took all day. Frequent crashes, errors and issues had me close to going back to tortoise svn on my pc. I was hoping snail was as good as that program,but I was wrong. One of the main issues that seems to be so obvious, there does not appear to be a way to committ a single file or folder or group of files. For whatever reason, large commits cause crashes, so I attempted to reduce the number of files per commit, but there is no obvious way to do that. You can only select all or none or check the box for each individual file or folder to transfer. In some cases we are talking hundreds or thousands of files. Couldn’t the delevoper figure out a better way to select files? Just highlight the files you want and then have a check box that will allow you to selected just those files in the commit? What do I know — I’m not a developer but that would seem obvious. The real fault here is the Windows OS. I suppose everyone is using git these days so that laugh is on those of us who are still using svn on a Windows.

  
  

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