Quick Tools Recommendations
August 16, 2009 Leave a comment
As I was doing some work on my VSTime project I realized that my favorite source control tools might be of interest, so here they are:
TortoiseSVN integrates directly into Windows Explorer and turns any old folder into a Subversion-controlled repository. Free to all.
AnkhSVN is an open-source plugin for Visual Studio that connects to Subversion repositories. Again, free.
This is by far the coolest of the bunch, though you need the first two to use it. Codespaces.com is a Subversion host, and much more. It’s not free, but $2.99/month is a very good deal for:
- Multiple Users
- Work Items
- Card Wall
- Document Repository
- Wiki
- As many code repositories as you have space for ($2.99/month buys 500MB)
- Project Portal (you can share details about the project with outside stakeholders)
I’ve been using the service for several months and it’s awesome. Very good for personal projects you want to keep backed up, especially if you work on multiple machines.
One caveat: if you set up these tools, don’t attempt to manage Visual Studio project checkins/checkouts through TortoiseSVN, use only AnkhSVN. There’s some versioning issue between them, so if you try to use both on the same project you may end up with a versioning error. Just stick to using AnkhSVN and you’ll be good to go. This may have been addressed with the last release of AnkhSVN, but I haven’t tried it.
