Git GUI Clients (4-1), SVN and TortoiseSVN

Note: this article is published on 04/18/2024.

This is a series of articles related to Git GUI Clients.

Git GUI Clients (0), Overview
Git GUI Clients (1), Visual Studio
Git GUI Clients (2), VS Code
Git GUI Clients (3), GitHub Desktop
- Git GUI Clients (3-1), GitHub Server
Git GUI Clients (4), TortoiseGit
- Git GUI Clients (4-1), TortoiseSVN --- this article
Git GUI Clients (5), SmartGit

Note. Although Git is very popular in the software development process, there is no category defined in this C # Corner site. So, we put the articles under the DevOps category.

When we discuss these Client GUI for Git, we consentrate on these following features assiacted with the specific Client GUI::

Visual Studio, VS Code
- Repos Management (Local):
  - Create a Repository, Branch
  - Clone a Repository
  - Merge, Rebase, Reset, Revert a Branch...
- Interaction between Local Repos and Remote
  - Fetch
  - Pull
  - Push
  - Sync
- Editor (+ the original environment funcitonalities, such as compiling, debugging and so on)
GitHub Desktop, TortoiseGit, SmartGit
- Repos Management (Local)
- Interaction between Local Repos and Remote
GitHub Server
- Repos Management (Remote)
- Interaction between Repos and Server automation (pipeline)

A - Introduction

In this article, we will describe What the SVN is and its major features. The content of this article:

A: Introduction
B: What SVN (TortoiseSVN) is
C: Most Popular Functionalities of SVN
- C-1: Get Latest Version
- C-2: Clone Files/Folder from SVN to Local
- C-3: Commit Code into SVN
- C-4: Check Difference
- C-5: Create a Patch
- C-6: Check Owner

B - What SVN (TortoiseSVN) is

Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).

Subversion was created by CollabNet Inc. in 2000, and is now a top-level Apache project being built and used by a global community of contributors.

While SVN is the Server side app, with offered online service, TortoiseSVN is its Client Side GUI tool.

SVN --- Server side: