NetBeans subversion support seriously broken
February 2nd, 2007
Why do I have to install Subversion onto my computer in order to use NetBeans Subversion? If I use Eclipse and install Subclipse, I don’t also have to install Subversion onto my computer. There is a full svn client build into the Eclipse plug-in. This is not the case for NetBeans. In addition, there is nothing that tells you that it is setup wrong until you try to check something out from a svn repository. This is just stupid. It should be a simple matter of downloading and installing the plug-in and away you go. Whatever happened to “it should just work”?
Categories: NetBeans
I agree. What’s the point of including SVN if it doesn’t work? Did you every figure out a solution?
No, I have not found a solution, beyond using Eclipse or another Subversion client. It really is to bad that NetBeans has dropped the ball on this.
I was actually talking to a coworker last week about Subversion support in Java IDEs and he agreed that the need to have SVN pre-installed on your computer in order to get it to work in NetBeans did not constitute support and was just stupid.
downloaded netbeans months back, but stuck similarly. and i remember how quick it was with IntelliJ.