Snow Leopard and SVN within the Finder – First Solution

September 10, 2009 L. Preston Sego III 11 comments

When I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, my contextual menu for using SVN within the Finder died. So here is the first working solution I found. I’m not a fan of using apple script for SVN, but it was quick and easy. Tortoise SVN is a great solution for Windows, but only for Windows… They should make a mac version.

http://svn-finder.sourceforge.net/

Enabling the Apple Script Menu

1. Open AppleScript Editor (Located in /Applications/Utilities/

2. Hit Command + , to bring up the Preferences

3. Make sure “Show Script menu in menu bar” is checked

Installing the scripts

1. Download the scripts from the link above

2. From the Scripts menu in the menu bar, select “Open Scripts Folder” then “Open User Scripts Folder”

3. Make your way to ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Finder if step 2 didn’t bring you there

4. Drag the downloaded scripts to the folder in step 3 and your done installing!

or, Alternatively, You can install the scripts to /Library/Scripts/SVN if you want all the SVN stuff to be in a sub menu.

Using SVN

The URL for your SVN account is http://USERNAME@SVN_ADDRESS

Terminal will then open and you will be prompted to type your SVN password.

Congratulations! you now have a GUI shortcut for using SVN in Snow Leopard!

Apple AppleScript, Mac, Snow Leopard, SVN

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Written by Pharma234 about 2 years ago.

Very nice site!
Written by gonczos about 2 years ago.

Very nice tip, thanks.
I managed to connect to a repository on google code.
Written by Snow Leopard and SVN within the Finder – Second Solution « L. Preston Sego III about 2 years ago.

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Written by yves about 2 years ago.

Cool a simple alternative to the scplugin, finally!
Written by Mike about 2 years ago.

Thank you for the helpful blog!

I got the following error on Snow Leopard – please help!:
svn: OPTIONS of ‘http://username@ip/wwwroot/filename': authorization failed: Could not authenticate to server: ignored Negotiate challenge, ignored NTLM challenge

(I’m a complete newbie to svn)

Thanks
Written by L. Preston Sego III about 2 years ago.

that sounds like a question for google ^_^
Written by Mike about 2 years ago.

Tried google The problem was I was using the incorrect url and un/pw. A developer I work with enlightened me! Thank you! It’s working superbly now
Written by Deb about 2 years ago.

I am a contractor who is new to subversion. I check out files from the server at my company. Anyway, I just downloaded Snow Leopard and I can no longer use subversion. I followed all of the steps you mentioned, but I am confused about the “Using SVN” section. Where do I type in http://USERNAME@SVN_ADDRESS so that terminal opens up automatically?
Written by Christian about 2 years ago.

Hi, it doesnt work at my snowleopard…
It always shows the following message when i want to run a script on a file:

subversion/libsvn_wc/lock.c.377:(apr_err=155007)
svn: ‘Plain Text.txt’ is not a working copy

In the script I just corrected one line to:
set subversionUrl to “svn://helena.newtec.zz/current/NewTec/”

is this right?
Written by Chase about 2 years ago.

Hi, Preston,

I am having a bit of trouble with the update script. It executes in an AppleScript message box, and so it cannot read stdin.

It’s only a problem if I need to merge code.

Is there a way I can get it to execute in my terminal?

Thanks!

- Chase

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