TortoiseSVN The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control

There are updates available for StExBar, GrepWin and CommitMonitor. The updates include not just bug fixes but also some new features.

You can check out what's new in the issue trackers for each project:

StExBar
GrepWin
CommitMonitor

To download the new versions, please go to the download pages:

StExBar
GrepWin
CommitMonitor

TortoiseSVN 1.6.10 has been released.

This is a bugfix release/maintenance release, still linked with Subversion 1.6.12.
Apart from a few bugfixes, this release also works again on Windows 2000 and XP SP2 and earlier. Version 1.6.9 required at least XP with SP3.

We recommend that you update your TortoiseSVN client to this latest version. You can get it from our download page.

Also note that after installing this version, you have to run a repair install. To do that, run the installer again and click the "Repair" button. I'm sorry about the inconvenience.

If you want to know why the repair install is required, you can read about the technical details in my earlier post.

Some of you may have noticed that the last two versions of TortoiseSVN did not always install properly if an older version was already installed. To fix the problem, all you needed to do was to run the installer again and choose "Repair" in the dialog.

Unfortunately, the next version (supposed to be 1.6.10) will have the very same problem. I'm sorry about that. But the versions after that should work fine again. That means an update from any version to version 1.6.10 or later will require a repair install!

If you want to know more about the technical details of the problem, read on. If not, just remember that all you have to do is to run the installer again and choose "Repair".

We need people that help to finish translating the documentation of TortoiseSVN. The following languages haven't been updated for a while, which means the previous translator doesn't have the time to work on TortoiseSVN at the moment.

Indonesian (52% complete)
Croatian (67% complete, only TortoiseMerge)
Slovak (30% complete)
Slovenian (80% complete)

Just send an e-mail to translators@tortoisesvn.tigris.org and introduce yourself. We'll help to get you started. Professional translators please be aware that this is an open source project and that there will be no payment for translation work.

Check the Doc translation status at our DOC translation status page.

WANdisco, a corporate sponsor of the Subversion project with core Subversion committers on staff, and certified Subversion binaries available for download
has announced that it will sponsor and provide professional support for the TortoiseSVN project. More information can be found at: http://www.wandisco.com/products/svn/tortoise/support.php.

SendMessage is a little tool to send Windows messages to any window.

Lately I've noticed that a lot of people ask for a feature that's already implemented in TortoiseSVN. Usually the users either request that feature or report a bug on our mailing list. But actually, there are two features that are implemented in TortoiseSVN which help users for this problem.

Gurtle is an IBugTraqProvider plugin for TortoiseSVN, dealing with the issue tracker of Google Project Hosting (also sometimes referred to as Google Code).

Gurtle just released a new version 0.4, and this time it comes with a nice installer so you don't have to build it yourself anymore.

In case you don't know whether you need this tool, ask yourself two questions:

• Are you using TortoiseSVN?
• Are you hosting one or more projects on Google Project Hosting?

If you answered both questions with yes, then you need Gurtle! And according to some unofficial statistics, quite a few of you will.

Once you've installed Gurtle, the TortoiseSVN commit dialog will show you a button at the top right from where you can start Gurtle. A new dialog shows you then all open issues of your project from where you can select the issue your commit is referring to. This makes it much easier to write commit messages.

For help on how to configure your projects with Gurtle, please refer to the wiki page which explains this.

There are two new tools available from our tools page: trafficWatcher and MailNoter.

Maybe you find those useful.

TortoiseSVN allows you to specify your own tool for showing diffs and/or merges. For example, a lot of people prefer WinMerge over TortoiseMerge (even though I can't see why :-) ).

But sometimes you might want to prefer TortoiseMerge over your custom diff tool. Changing the settings would be way too complicated to just use TortoiseMerge once, for this particular situation.

TortoiseSVN allows you to use TortoiseMerge easily, without changing your custom diff tool setup: just hold down the shift-key when you click on the context menu to do the diff. If the shift key is pressed when doing a diff, TortoiseSVN always uses TortoiseMerge. If the shift key is not pressed, the diff/merge tool specified in your settings is used.