Ever since making the switch to Ubuntu last year, my longing for TortoiseSVN on my development PC has been growing stronger. Not strong enough to consider switching back to Windows, but frankly all of the Subversion clients I’ve tried for Linux are pretty terrible.
But today, I happened across the NautilusSvn project on Google Code, and let me just say that my faith in the open source community to deliver a great visual Subversion client has been restored. This is still an alpha-quality project under active development, but already it is very promising and they are releasing “stable snapshots”.
I installed the 0.12 version — very easily I should add — and was subsequently rushed headfirst back into my TortoiseSVN-like comfort zone of attractive, recursively-relevant status icons on my project folders, plus a great commit dialog complete with changes list on which I can double-click entries to view diffs for them. And it even integrates the wonderful Meld diff viewer.
So, my heartfelt thanks to the NautilusSvn development team for all their efforts put into this wonderful project. I certainly look forward to the continued development and improvement of this tool!
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