Comments on: Mac subversion apps – Cornerstone vs Versions

By: aa

aa — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 05:20:19 +0000

BASH SVN all the way

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:06:07 +0000

Hi
Cheers for the round-up. I went through the same head-to-head at the end of last year. I spent the trial period one-day-at-a-time with each app. In the middle of the trail phase, Versions released an update which did make the app feel more modern,

Having used Versions for about 18months, every day, I had the same trouble finding some features, but after a while I began to prefer _some_ of the Cornerstone layout. I much preferred Cornerstone’s selectors for viewing new/updated/missing files over Versions All/Changed selector – doubly so after the update as they moved it to a screen location that makes no sense to me.

I’d also agree with the general tone expressed here, Cornerstone feels a bit more “pro”. In the end I decided not to spend more money on version control software, even tho’ I wanted to switch.

By: Tonio

Tonio — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:02:22 +0000

It’s interesting you never followed up on this.

I went through the same process, and eventually went with Cornerstone. Judging from Versions almost complete lack of progress since it was released I suspect I am not alone in this (Cornerstone is now at v2.0.4.) In general, when I’ve had issues with Cornerstone I get feedback from their tech support people (yes, they have someone other than the coder handling tech support) within hours. So, looks like Cornerstone won.

I suspect that Cornerstone will dominate the “graphical version control client” niche on the Mac until someone does something similar for git or mercurial (seems like git has more traction, but I hold out hope for mercurial).

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:15:54 +0000

Great write up!

I’ve been checking out both apps today and agree that either one will work well. I’m leaning toward Cornerstone, however, because of the ability to commit a folder and then select/deselect individual files within that folder. I often have one or more files that I don’t want to commit just yet and love having the option of still right-clicking the folder to commit everything else.

By: Robert Kern

Robert Kern — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:38:06 +0000

Hi Adam,
I now have a licence for both Versions and Cornerstone. I am using Cornerstone most of the time and expect it will stay that way unless a future Versions update offers something worth switching back to.
Good luck choosing. To be honest, i think they are both great apps, and either way you go im sure you will be happy.

Robert

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:45:12 +0000

I am going through the same process right now evaluating Versions and Cornerstone. But being new to SVN doesn’t make choosing which app to go with any easier. What did you finally decide? Why?

Thanks for your article.

Adam