Alternative port for Subversion

dennylin93 · Nov 16, 2009

Hi, I'm looking for a port that I can install instead of Subversion. All I need is to be able to checkout/export via HTTP. Any suggestions?

expl · Nov 16, 2009

Are you looking for a client thats compatible with Subversion server or are you looking for entire different CVS engine?

Mercurial (devel/mercurial) engine is what I use for my projects.

The client supports importing from Subversion repositories not sure if you can commit with it to them.

dennylin93 · Nov 16, 2009

I'm just looking for a client that can check out from a Subversion repository.

BuSerD · Nov 16, 2009

quick search

You can do a quick search of the ports tree like this

Code:

cd /usr/ports/ ; make quicksearch key="subversion client"

dennylin93 · Nov 17, 2009

Sorry, I didn't explain well enough. I'm looking for a lightweight alternative (just to export or checkout) because I don't want to install all the dependencies that Subversion requires. I'll just stick to Subversion or migrate to Git if I can't find one.

@BuSerD: Thanks for the tip, but only GUI clients turned up.

Googling for more possibilities right now.

CodeBlock · Nov 17, 2009

As already suggested, some alternatives are git, Hg, and bazaar.

crsd · Nov 17, 2009

What's wrong with devel/subversion?

`make all-depends-list` doesn't show anything requiring time to install, perl and autotools as usual.

dennylin93 · Nov 19, 2009

I don't usually install lang/python26 and lang/tcl85 on servers, but Subversion requires these ports because of devel/apr. Ah well, I've still decided to install Subversion.

ohauer · Nov 19, 2009

devel/apr is not needed to run subversion.

It seems apache-2.2.13 has the same apr version than devel/apr.
I'm running everything with apache-2.2.14 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140137) and this version has apr 1.3.9.

TCL is only needed to build sqlite, you can remove tcl after building sqlite

dave · Nov 26, 2009

Just build subversion with all options unchecked.