Subversive 1.1.0 RC1 review

Subversive project is an Eclipse plug-in which provides Subversion support

License: Eclipse Public License File size: 3130K Developer: Polarion Software GMBH

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Subversive project is an Eclipse plug-in which provides Subversion support. From a user's point of view, Subversive provides Subversion support similar to CVS support, which is already part of the standard Eclipse platform.

The JavaSVN library is used for interaction with Subversion. In addition to functionality, Subversive pays special attention to usability and nice interface.

The Subversive project is a brand new Eclipse plug-in that provides Subversion support. From a user point of view, Subversive provides Subversion support similar to CVS support, which is already part of the standard Eclipse platform. The main use cases, which are familiar to CVS users, are:

Connection to the repository using different connection types
Repository browsing
Check-out
Synchronization
Commiting
Update
Resolving conflicts
Adding to the list of ignored resources

JavaSVN open-source library is used for interaction with Subversion. Having compared it with other tools that use JavaSVN, the Subversive team together with the JavaSVN team extended the standard Subversion API. This improvement gives Subversive an advantage if compared with other native and Java-based Subversion clients. The following solutions, now available in Subversive, are not present in other Subversion clients because of standard API limitations.

Requirements:
Subversive requires JDK 1.4 or JDK 1.5 and supports the following versions of Eclipse:
3.0.x family (tested with 3.0.2)
3.1.x family (tested with 3.1.1 and 3.1.2)
3.2 family (tested with 3.2 M4)
Subversive supports Subversion versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.

What's New in This Release:
Mylar integration was made compatible with the latest Mylar version.
Support for a unified method of multiple and single branch/tag operations is provided.
A revision may be selected manually in the "Add Revision Link" dialog.
The ability to paste selected resource names to the commit message in the Commit Dialog was added.
The ability to show the immediate parent, direct child, and full path up to root for the tag and branch in the project label was added.
A set of bugs were fixed.