Is there anything that TortoiseSVN can do that can't be done through Netbeans?

[jhfrench]

I was reading that the Netbeans IDE has built-in Subversion support. I've also seen a reference to using Netbeans and Subversion together. But I've been a long-time Tortoise user, and I know it can slow down the Windows shell. Is it redundant to install TortoiseSVN if you are using NetBeans? Is there anything that TortoiseSVN can do that can't be done through Netbeans?

(for those with StackOverflow.com accounts, I asked this question at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14512793/is-there-anything-that-tortoisesvn-can-do-that-cant-be-done-through-netbeans)

[Edson Richter]

Em 28/01/2013 13:40, jhfrench escreveu:

[Owen Thomas]

AFAIK, the SVN client provided in Netbeans can do everything any other client (Tortoise et al) can do. The only time when I have had to consider using a separate client is when, for reasons that involve the incomplete implementation of structures drawing on Java generics, the IDE would hang when it tried to check the syntax of my code.

I was recently subject to such a circumstance, and I needed to consider installing a separate client when I deliberated the management of a code base subject to the deletion of directories. If you are removing packages or reorganising the package names of your source files while trying to maintain an unstable code base that hangs the compiler, then maybe a separate client may need to be installed. Thankfully, in my recent circumstance, I pulled through without the need of resorting to a separate client.

If ever this becomes your circumstance, you will receive my sincerest sympathies. It would be very frustrating for you if your circumstance persisted; you would have to resort to a time consuming compile/edit/repeat cycle until your circumstances change. With an external SVN client, you would retain the ability to keep your working copy clean, but you would certainly miss all the code navigation and re-factoring things provided by Netbeans that make your programming exercises tolerable.

[Edson Richter]

Em 29/01/2013 07:00, Stadelmann Josef escreveu: