Re: question on SVN.EXE binary distribution vendors

Daniel Sahlberg <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:13:20 +0200
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Den ons 23 juli 2025 kl 15:43 skrev Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 9:25=E2=80=AFAM Daniel Sahlberg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Cirata, VisualSVN and SlikSVN on the other hand are commercial entities
> and it might be possible to negotiate support contracts with them,
> something that may be important for a service to run =E2=80=9Dextremely w=
ell=E2=80=9D.
> >
> > TortoiseSVN is very much volunteer driven.
> >
> > I doubt there are much differences between the projects with regards to
> stability, except they might contain different versions of the
> dependencies. For example TortoiseSVN currently bundle a version of OpenS=
SL
> which seems to crash on ARM under some circumstances.
>
> I personally found VisualSVN a little frustrating, and I would not
> recommend them. Searching for a source file in the web app takes
> forever. It is painfully slow. And trying to search their mailing list
> or web forums is a no-go because they don't have them. There's no body
> of knowledge to search for solutions to problems like slow search.
>
> Jeff
>

I have found VisualSVN's support very responsive, but we ($dayjob) are on
one of the paid license tiers.

Cheers,
Daniel

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">Den ons 23 juli 2025 kl 15:43 skrev Jeffr=
ey Walton &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&=
gt;:</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote clas=
s=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid r=
gb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 9:25=E2=80=AFAM D=
aniel Sahlberg<br>
&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">daniel=
[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; [...]<br>
&gt; Cirata, VisualSVN and SlikSVN on the other hand are commercial entitie=
s and it might be possible to negotiate support contracts with them, someth=
ing that may be important for a service to run =E2=80=9Dextremely well=E2=
=80=9D.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; TortoiseSVN is very much volunteer driven.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I doubt there are much differences between the projects with regards t=
o stability, except they might contain different versions of the dependenci=
es. For example TortoiseSVN currently bundle a version of OpenSSL which see=
ms to crash on ARM under some circumstances.<br>
<br>
I personally found VisualSVN a little frustrating, and I would not<br>
recommend them. Searching for a source file in the web app takes<br>
forever. It is painfully slow. And trying to search their mailing list<br>
or web forums is a no-go because they don&#39;t have them. There&#39;s no b=
ody<br>
of knowledge to search for solutions to problems like slow search.<br>
<br>
Jeff<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have found VisualSVN&#39;s suppo=
rt very responsive, but we ($dayjob) are on one of the paid license tiers.<=
/div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Daniel</div><div><br></div></div=
></div>

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