Hi Andreas / Daniel / Brane,
Thank you very much for the quick reply. Understood.
Please see my replies below.
Thanks.
~ John
>>> Please don't assume endorsement just because the project publishes those
>>> links. They're a service to the community, no more and no less.
Understood.
Thanks.
>>> [...] It might be best if you try them all and see which one best fits
>>> your requirements.
Yes.
I will research them all.
>>> TortoiseSVN (optionally installs 32- and 64-bit (x64 and ARM64) command
>>> line tools and svnserve; supported and maintained by the TortoiseSVN
>>> project)
Tortoise will be installed as well.
That's a high possibility to use its SVN.EXE.
Great.
>>> I doubt there are much differences between the projects with regards to
>>> stability, except they might contain different versions of the dependencies.
Good point.
I will look for dependency aspects when researching.
Thanks.
~ John
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ons 23 juli 2025 kl. 10:08 skrev Andreas Stieger
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Hello John,
On 2025-07-23 02:16, Branko Čibej wrote:
The first sentence of the first paragraph on that page says, with emphasis:
The Apache Subversion project does not officially endorse or maintain any
binary packages of the Subversion software.
Please don't assume endorsement just because the project publishes those links.
They're a service to the community, no more and no less.
You don't say what you actually need (other than that it "run extremely well",
which is not very specific). It might be best if you try them all and see which
one best fits your requirements.
In addition to what Brane wrote: All else being equal and merely basing this on
your stated requirements
SVN.EXE client for Windows operating systems (e.g. Windows 2022).
and the fact you work for its.ny.gov<http://its.ny.gov/>, I would say that..
TortoiseSVN (optionally installs 32- and 64-bit (x64 and ARM64) command line
tools and svnserve; supported and maintained by the TortoiseSVN project)
this will one that is rather likely be hassle free to deploy and run in your
environment.
Andreas
Cirata, VisualSVN and SlikSVN on the other hand are commercial entities and it
might be possible to negotiate support contracts with them, something that may
be important for a service to run "extremely well".
TortoiseSVN is very much volunteer driven.
I doubt there are much differences between the projects with regards to
stability, except they might contain different versions of the dependencies.
For example TortoiseSVN currently bundle a version of OpenSSL which seems to
crash on ARM under some circumstances.
Cheers,
Daniel
