Yup, I said it… Eclipse hates SVN. The way I see it, Eclipse treats Subversion like a red-headed stepchild. How long has Subversion been around now? Years and years, since 2000 to be exact. Yeah, it’s been around for 8 years. And Eclipse still only does a half-ass job of supporting subverion. The Eclipse Foundation choose Subversive as their svn client/plugin of choice back in Nov 2007. Yet, to get Subversive up and running in Eclipse is a matter of pain and suffering.
Eclipse just released their yearly version, this year they’re calling it Ganymede, and it was supposed to kind of have svn/Subversive support…. but heck no. Good luck getting it working. The documentation/instructions suck at best, being fair, the instuctions are crap.
Oh, I’m so close to giving NetBeans a serious look.
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We use Eclipse/SVN at work. It’s a pain, it crashes sometime with big commits (how can it, a SCM I trust my sources with) or doesn’t see changes. Really bad. Privatly I have been using IDEA for years without any SVN problems.
Peace
-stephan
PS: How can a SCM(-client) dare to crash?
I second the IntelliJ IDEA suggestion. Works great and stays out of your way. A true coder’s editor, not an IDE. And you even have a free license to it!
-Tim
I used to struggle with SVN on eclipse but not since using the pure Java interface option - preferences->team->SVN.
Have you tried that ?
cheers,
Rob
@Stephan
@Tim
IntelliJ is not an option. I need a FOSS IDE which leaves Eclipse and Netbeans.
@Rob
Can you please clarify how to get to the pure Java option? I didn’t see anything on Prefs -> Team -> SVN that looked like a pure java option.
agreee
i use eclipse since 2.0, and now there is 3.4 that cannot run subclipse easily.
i dont know why eclipse people change the spec of their plugins, that is bad…
hurting community.
Huh. I occasionally have issues with Eclipse/subversive, but I don’t find it too troublesome for the most part. I’d prefer it to be stronger, but it’s good enough that I don’t bother with the command-line for the most part.
But, then, if you think you’re going to have a better time with NB, I encourage you to try. I looked at NB about a year back and one of the things that quickly drove me back to Eclipse was the support for SVN in NB — the interface was ugly and incredibly limiting.
Have you tried subclipse, Use it with subversion and eclipse everyday and I am quite please with it.
Hmm… Rob, we had a few problems with Subclipse and decided to move to Subversive, since Eclipse picked it as the standard. I think as soon as the Eclipse people get Subversive fully integrated this won’t be an issue.
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