Cornerstone is a version control app built on Subversion that makes serious version control easier than ever. With full support for all of Subversion's rich features, it's both incredibly powerful and super-easy to use.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Streamlined workflow for previewing your changes before committing them.
• Super-helpful checklist and preview take the guesswork out of Merging.
• Class-leading text comparison and editing so you'll never miss a change.
• Ingenious annotations that tell you the Who? Why? and When? of every piece of your files.
• Log and Timeline views make navigating your project's history a breeze.
• Zero configuration: everything you need is included in the app.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"Thanks for producing one of the most intelligent pieces of software I have ever used. Cornerstone has dramatically improved my productivity".
Joel R. Kallman, Oracle America Inc.
Director, Software Development
“We recently switched to Subversion after having used Perforce for many years and we've found Cornerstone to be really impressive.”
Rich Siegel, Bare Bones Software, Inc
Makers of BBEdit and Yojimbo
FEATURES
Repositories:
• Create new repositories or connect to existing ones
• Organize repositories in source lists
• Option-drag to create tags and branches
• Drag from Finder to import
Working Copies:
• Organize working copies in source list
• Add existing working copies by dragging from Finder
• Change summary (including available repository updates), top folder status and activity shown in source list
• Displays local and remote file status
• Quick Look working copy files
• Powerful filtering by modification and lock status as well as by file name
• Configure which application to open files with by type and by file
• Inspect and modify Subversion properties
• Full support for sparse working copies with folder depth extension and reduction
Integrated Compare View:
• Compare text and images
• Syntax coloring for C/C++, CSS, HTML, Javascript, Objective-
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Comments and Reviews
Do yourself a favour and give this a miss. Cornerstone has now been acquired by Assembla who have gone on the money grab path in the most despicable way possible. I bought a perpetual user license a few years back and installed it on a few of my machines as per the license agreement. Each year I would replace my old kit with new and reinstall the app. I have now been told be Assembla that my license has been deactivated as it was installed on too many machines. WTF! To make matters worse I contacted them about the issue and they didn't even bother to reply. This is disgraceful behaviour which should deter anyone from dealing them at all. And I'm not the only one, you don't need to search for long to see a list of others who have been handed the same treatment. There are only 2 others to consider now, Versions and Xversion. Versions seems to have been pretty much abandoned by it's owner and does not have a built-in diff view ( you have to pay them for Kaleidoscope if you want that, another money grab) which leaves Xversion which in my mind beats them both hands down.
Same here. I'm using Xversion now; it's great.
NB: In all fairness. Versions does the standard diff view app included in Xcode, so you don't need to buy Kaleidoscope. And they recently updated Versions.
Ok maybe I was overly harsh on Versions but what gets me is the fact they already have the code they need in Kaleidoscope to give it built-in diff capability. Yes you could use FileMerge but to me it's a bit of a clunky experience to have to jump between apps. And yes I see they have updated it recently although they didn't add any new functionality as far as I can see. Nice new icons though.
I tried a few different SVN clients on the Mac and this one won hands-down. It does everything I need, branching, logs, reversion, etc.
Occasionally I find that it doesn't pickup remote changes that someone else has done, until I move to a different project and back then manually refresh the node (sometimes I have to additionally re-check a menu item ('View - Show Repository Status') and adding SVN ignore could be a little more helpful to guide you with the syntax and copy the rule to sub-directories automatically when created.
Other than that it's a very clear user-interface.