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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?
I think subversion is interesting but my impression is that it wasn't "real" yet?
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.
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).
closing since I don't see us doing this in forseeable future.
(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.
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.
