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Bug 22625

Summary: Provide support for Subversion
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Tim Wright <eclipse>
Component: TeamAssignee: Platform-VCM-Inbox <platform-vcm-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Tim Wright CLA 2002-08-21 06:42:24 EDT 
Subversion is a replacement for CVS. It is a really nice free SCM tool that 
provides much of the stuff you really miss in CVS. See:

http://subversion.tigris.org

It would be great to see suport for this build into eclipse?
Comment 1 Kevin McGuire CLA 2002-08-21 14:37:43 EDT 
I think subversion is interesting but my impression is that it wasn't "real" 
yet?
Comment 2 Dave Neary CLA 2003-02-18 11:00:42 EST 
It's real enough. I've used it for a couple of projects. That's not to say that
it doesn't have problems, but it's far from vapourware. It is fully functional
and very stable. 

Writing a plug-in would also be pretty straightforward - the client API is
isolated and exposed in a couple of libraries, and there are language bindings
for all SWIG supported languages (including Java, via JNI), so support would
also be tightly bound to the graphical interface, as opposed to being a wrapper
around a CLI.

Cheers,
Dave.
Comment 3 Kevin McGuire CLA 2003-02-18 12:58:11 EST 
I suspect its unlikely that we would staff a project to do this - we still 
have like 500 open bugs for CVS! :)

However, we are interested in it, and there has been interest expressed by a 
few members of the community.  What I would suggest is that if enough people 
were interested they should propose and start a project in Eclipse Tools or 
Eclipse Technology (probably former is more app).
Comment 4 Kevin McGuire CLA 2003-02-18 13:52:49 EST 
closing since I don't see us doing this in forseeable future.
Comment 5 Morten Christensen CLA 2005-07-19 10:38:08 EDT 
(In reply to comment #4)
> closing since I don't see us doing this in forseeable future.

A shame (brings back some memories of companies sticking to "DOS" and refusing
to port their software to "Windows"). Netbeans announced at JavaOne 2005 that
they are going to support Subversion. Eclipse fundation should reconsider.
Comment 6 Alex Blewitt CLA 2006-02-05 14:57:18 EST 
Technically, this should be closed a duplicate of https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37154
(bug 37154). Leaving this link/bug in here in case anyone comes across this instead of the more up-to-date one.