SvnBridge -- Use Tortoise SVN with Team Foundation Server

GarrettS — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:31:08 GMT

I just got ping'd by the very fine Jonathan Wanagel, about a very cool, and very early build of SvnBridge:

Project Description
SvnBridge allows you to use TortoiseSVN and other Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server. It converts the calls made by your Subversion client to the API supported by TFS.

SvnBridge works by running an executable on your local machine that acts as the bridge to TFS. You point SvnBridge at the TFS server, and point TortoiseSVN at the bridge running on your local machine. This allows you to use TortoiseSVN with any TFS server without needing to change the TFS server in any way (no need to convince your system administrator of anything!).

Current Status
SvnBridge is still under active development in early alpha stage and not stable yet. Click here to see the current status of individual commands.
While we don't yet recommend using SvnBridge for your critical development work, we do encourage you to try it out and provide feedback! Use the issue tracker to report any issues or feedback.

Future Plans
The target features for the completed version 1 is to have the following features fully functional:

Checkout
Update
Commit
Repository Browsing
Show log
Patch
Revert
Cleanup
Anonymous Access to CodePlex source control servers

Post version 1 plans include supporting additional commands and creating a server version of SvnBridge. A server version would allow you to run a centralized SvnBridge so you don't need to run a bridge on each developer workstation.

This is fantastic news. I'm quite excited to see this start to make it's appearance, and those of you who prefer Subversion should appreciate this.

Check it out, and start filin' bugs! (tell em' I said Hi!)

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There can be only one MVP program

GarrettS — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:05:32 GMT

I got to my office this morning, and found that gettin' off the horse too quickly often means steppin' in a cow pie.

Ah well, like my cousin Teddy used to say : “Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back.” ... and he'd know... poor old Teddy got thirty some stiches from the cat when he tried.

So, when I said "Building an Open Source MVP Program" on Friday, I had meant of course, that I hadn't done so yet (hence the use of the future tense 'building', as opposed to 'running', 'maintaining', or even 'built'), and I'm going to work with the One And Only Microsoft MVP Program.

Having now fired off the email to the fine folks runnin' the program, let's hope that I can find a slough to clean my boots off.

Technorati Tags: Port25, Open Source, fearthecowboy

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SvnBridge -- Use Tortoise SVN with Team Foundation Server

There can be only one MVP program