Syncro SVN Client

What's new in Syncro SVN Client V7?

• Improved Working Copy Locks Representation - File locks in the Working Copy view are now presented using graphic symbols, which allow you to rapidly identify files with active, broken or stolen locks. Also, when synchronizing your working copy with the repository, you can see the current lock state of files in the repository, including those locked by other users.
• Added Locking Support in Repositories View - Repositories view now presents the existing file locks when browsing repository content. Now you can lock or unlock files directly in the repository, using actions available in the Repositories view.
• Improved File Comparison Representation and Functionality - Comparing algorithm has been improved to detect differences at a finer level of granularity. Besides the old detection of different blocks of text, Syncro SVN Client brings a second level of comparison, by directly emphasising word differences inside these blocks. Management of differences was improved by presenting an in-place widget which gives quicker access to actions which allow you to copy or replace content of the currently selected difference.
• SSH Host Verification - Improved connection security when accessing for the first time a repository through SSH protocol. Now, Syncro SVN Client allows you to interrupt the connection to an untrusted SSH host.
• Added Name Conflict State for Working Copy Files - Syncro SVN Client signals the existence in repository of files considered to have the same name on a case-insensitive operating system, like Microsoft Windows. These files are marked as being in a Name Conflict state in your working copy.
• Component Updates - Updated SVNKit library to version 1.3.5, compatible with Subversion 1.6.15, which contains various bug fixes and improvements.

What's new in Syncro SVN Client V5.1?
Version 5.1 of Syncro SVN Client improves working copy load time, automatically refreshes the working copy on external file changes, makes repository browsing more responsive, adds support for repository imports at file level, adds support for replacing resources, improves handling of obstructed resources, improves history support, allows creating branches/tags directly from the repository and offers options to print and save as image a revision graph.

What's new in Syncro SVN Client V5.0?

• Diff Files tool - This tool allows finding the differences between two local files using six different diff algorithms and applying some options like ignore whitespaces, merge adjacent differences, etc.
• Diff Directories tool - This tool allows finding the differences between two sets of files that have the same names but are located in different folders. Two files with the same name can be compared with the binary content method or the last modification timestamp method.
• User interface update - The menus and toolbars were changed. Some actions were added or removed in the menu bar and in the views Working Copy, Synchronize, Repository, History so that the most used actions can be accessed faster. A new toolbar was added.
• Specify working copy format at checkout - Sometimes a working copy is used with more than one SVN application that may not support the latest working copy format. For compatibility with such applications the working copy format can be specified at checkout: SVN 1.4, SVN 1.5 or SVN 1.6.
• Upgrade and downgrade working copy format - If the user does not want to upgrade the working copy format to the latest format he can do that later with the Upgrade action. A downgrade action is available for users who need compatibility with applications that do not support the latest working copy format.

What's new in Syncro SVN Client V4.2?

• Support for SVN 1.6 - Syncro SVN Client supports SVN 1.6.2, allowing users to take advantage of the latest SVN improvements and fixes. Previous SVN versions are also supported, the user being able to decide whether a working copy should be updated to version 1.6 or not.
• Tree conflicts handling - Subversion 1.6 recognizes a new kind of conflict, known as a "tree conflict". Such conflicts manifest at the level of directory structure, rather than file content. These conflicts include deletions of locally modified files and incoming edits to locally deleted files. Syncro SVN Client allows to handle these conflicts offering a dialog that lists possible solutions for solving these conflicts.
• Improvements to svn:externals - Subversion 1.6 allows to link to external files by putting their URLs in the svn:externals property on the parent folder. Syncro SVN Client allows you to create, update, commit and remove external links from the user interface changing automatically the svn:externals property as needed.
• Improved revision graph performance - Syncro SVN Client stores the result of a revision graph operation and reuses that for further operations on the same repository, thus avoiding unnecessary requests to the SVN server for the same data. This results in a noticeable increase in performance.
• Access to network SVN file repositories - Network SVN repositories can be accessed using file URLs of the form "file://server/path".
• Better handling of symbolic links - Syncro SVN Client analyses the structure created by symbolic links usage detecting and handling infinite recursions.

What's new in Syncro SVN Client V4.1?

• Create patch wizard - This wizard allows you to create two patch types: a patch between a working copy resource and a repository resource or a patch between two repository resources or two revisions of the same resource. Other options like folder depth, ignore ancestry, ignore whitespaces or include unversioned files can also be specified.
• Quickly resolve conflicts resulted from a merge action - All the conflicts resulted from a merge action are listed in a dialog in which each conflict can be manually resolved or you can choose a generic action for automatically resolving all of them.
• Major performance improvements - Many common SVN actions like refresh, add, revert, update, merge, show history etc. were improved so that now they perform faster. Also, on Mac and Linux computers, you can control the SVN symbolic link support. If you don't need this support, you can disable it, which results in improved performance for common actions like those above.
• Scroll lock button in Console view - A Scroll lock button was added in the Console view. It disables console automatic scrolling when a SVN operation logs many messages in it. This allows the user to control the view and have enough time to read the displayed messages.
• Updated the SVNKit library - The SVNKit library was updated to the latest version - 1.2.1 - to support all Subversion 1.5.4 features.

What's new in Syncro SVN Client V4.0?
Syncro SVN Client V4.0 adds Subversion 1.5 features like merge tracking, sparse checkout and relative URLs for the svn:externals property and a merge wizard which simplifies the SVN merge operations.

Key features

• Full SVN repository support for SVN versions: checkout, export, import, copy, mkdir, rename, branch, tag and delete support. 
• The working copy view allows you to filter items and operate the whole range of SVN actions over the current selection.
• Synchronize view helps you spot right away all incoming and outgoing changes.
• SVN Properties table allows you to change all standard SVN properties and define your own.
• Supported communication protocols include SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, File.
• Responsive GUI. The actions on the repository do not freeze the user interface.
• Includes an easy-to-use visual diff/merge tool. Can also compare images.
• Support for merging the current working copy with a set of tags or revisions.
• Browse and manage multiple repositories at once.
• Easy management of more than one working copy.
• Fast set up of the working copies.
• Enhanced history revision details including a history graph of all revisions.
• Independent from the command line subversion client.
• Cross platform. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are supported.

Flexible Layout of the User Interface - The Syncro SVN Client is composed of several views allowing you to browse the Subversion repositories and your local working copies, compare and merge modifications, check the revision history. All views are dockable, meaning that you can move them to create the optimal layout for your use case.

SVN Repository Browsing - You can add multiple SVN repositories to the list accessed through different protocols (SVN, SVN + SSH, HTTP(S)) and browse them in parallel. In this way you can identify the resources you need to checkout, or even create branches or tags directly in the repository.

Synchronize with SVN Repository - In the synchronize view you can see the overall status of your working copy resources when compared to the repository resources. The view focuses on incoming and outgoing changes, where incoming ones are the changes that other users have committed since you last updated your working copy. The outgoing changes are the modifications you made to your working copy as a result of editing, removing or adding resources.

SVN Resource History - In Subversion, both files and directories are versioned and have a history. If you want to examine the history for a selected resource and find out what happened at a certain revision you can use the History view.

Local Working Copy of a SVN Repository - Each author that shares the SVN repository with other authors works on a local copy of the repository called a working copy of the repository. The local copy must be synchronized with the repository by committing the local changes to the repository and by updating the local copy with the changes committed by other authors on the repository.

Author Information at Line Level - Sometimes you need to know not only what lines have changed, but also who changed specific lines in a file. The Annotations view displays the author and the revision number that changed every line in a file the last time. The view is synchronized with the History view and the source code view: clicking in any view updates the current selection in the other two views so that the author name and the revision number are displayed for any line of the source code view.

Check Differences Between Local Version and Repository Version - One of the most common requirements in project development is to see what changes have been made to the files from your working copy or to the files from the repository. You can examine these changes after a synchronize operation with the repository, by using the Open in Compare Editor action from the contextual menu.

Visual Conflict Editing - An update operation may bring the local copy of a file in a conflict state. The conflict state can be resolved more quickly if the conflicts are edited visually in a compare view which presents the two conflicting versions side by side like a Diff application. In the compare view the user decides for each conflict the variant which will remain and will be finally committed to the repository: the local one, the repository one or a manually edited combination of the two variants.

Revision Graph - The history of a SVN resource can be viewed as a graph in the form of a tree. One node of the graph represents a revision of that resource committed to the trunk or one of the branches of the SVN repository. The icon and the background color of a graph node represent the operation that generated a revision. A graph node contains also the repository path and the revision number.