marc (marcn) wrote, @ 2007-04-02 14:26:00

Subversion on the Mac just got a lot easier
MAS is a drop-installable Subversion server to let you set up a version control system easily and with a GUI on a Macintosh.

This is great news -- previously setting up a local Subversion server has generally been too hard for 'most' web developers to bother with, but it's a great way to manage your source code changes, whether you're a a one-man-band -- in which case you probably don't have as many backups as you should! -- or if you're just editing code away from the company repository.

Good editors support SCM via Subversion (BBEdit, skEdit, Dreamweaver etc.), and the intriguing SCPlugin Finder Subversion plugin is seeing active development again.

All in all, that's good news for web devleopers, but there are other interesting possibilities from running a local Subversion repository for file back up and versioning, even in light of Leopard's coming Time Machine feature.

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