Best subversion client for Mac OS

问：

On Windows, Tortoise SVN is the daddy, no question. On the Mac there is nothing as simple and integrated, but there is a fair choice of tools. Which GUI clients are worth checking out and why?

答：

Having been disappointed with them all for one reason or another (mainly because they're horrible to use), I settled on the command line tools for ages. I was therefore delighted to find one that didn't make me want to stick pins in my eyes. Versions is a new svn client now in Beta and is the first one to offer proper Mac OS X look and feel.

WARNING - Beta 5 converts your working copies to 1.5 format, and earlier versions of the svn command line client tools cannot work with them after 1.5 has touched them. But it is easy to update the client tools to 1.5. As of 20080811, Beta 6 now supports both 1.4 and 1.5.

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EDIT - Cornerstone does look good... I am happy with Versions for now, and will probably pay for it when it launches. The main loss for me is the built in diff-window in Cornerstone - that's nice - but the clunky management of working copies separately from repositories is something I found really bad with things like svnX and I think that's a clear win for Versions.

Diffing is so important that every developer should have a good tool. On Windows we settled on the freeWinMerge, but on the Mac I rely totally on the awesome and free TextWrangler; Versions automatically selected it to use for doing comparisons, so I am happy as a hog with them working together.

The Ohlhauser review is really useful - thanks for linking that. He's also posted a follow-up which is also worth reading.

I'm really glad there are now two really good tools available; SmartSVN, svnX and ZigVersion were all good efforts but all far short of the excellent standard set by TortoiseSVN on Windows.

UPDATE, JUNE 2011: Following the purchase of the Sofa team by Facebook, the future of VersionsApp is a little unclear - it will continue but I'm not sure who will be maintaining it now. In other news, it still lacks built-in support for merging, still the biggest headache for many svn users, I believe. But Cornerstone 2 supports merging and branching in the GUI now, so am currently downloading that to evaluate it.