SVN Hosting Comparison

Updated 19 February 2009:

Between Beanstalk and Unfuddle, I initially chose the former, because I liked its UI better. But then I discovered that the free version of Beanstalk doesn’t have any defect tracking integration. So now I’m using Unfuddle (free version) and it’s been great so far. Performance is ok, the UI is nice (not as clean as Beanstalk’s, but still pretty good), but the winner is Unfuddle’s SVN integration with Trac: just key in the ticket number (e.g., “Ticket #123″) as the log message during SVN commit and Unfuddle will automatically create links between the SVN revision and the Trac ticket. Amazing.

Original posting:

(Yes, I know, Git is better, but SVN is just fine for my particular purpose.)

Tried the following free SVN hosting:

  • CVSDude Codesion. AJAX-ey UI and all that, but I found it distracting and confusing. More confusing was the fact that I couldn’t log in. Verdict: No.
  • ProjectLocker. Old-school UI – fine with me. Ads all over the place – fine with me. But it’s slow. Verdict: No.
  • Beanstalk. Very clean, very intuitive UI. Best feature: automatically creates the trunk, branches and tags directories upon creation of a new repository. I’m liking it. Verdict: Yes!

15 February 2010 | Uncategorized | Comments

3 Responses to “SVN Hosting Comparison”

  1. 1 Dave 16 February 2010 @ 11:40 am

    Dohhh … I wish I would have stumbled across this before before you chose. My personal favorites are Assembla and Unfuddle. Assembla publishes a subversion help site that has some good info svn-ref.assembla.com about svn clients and installing your own svn server. Happy subversioning.

  2. 2 Rizal 17 February 2010 @ 11:15 am

    @Dave,

    Don’t worry, it’s not too late, I have lots more projects to host :-)

    I did give Unfuddle a whirl after I signed up with Beanstalk - I think Beanstalk’s UI is better. However Beanstalk’s reliability, availability, etc still remains to be seen. Thanks!

  3. 3 ras 11 March 2010 @ 10:27 am

    recently I’ve found that bitbucket.org more promising. A mercurial version control with 1 GB private space - another option for DVCS other that git.

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