Cornerstone at Mac App Store analyse

Ive been using Versions since it came out and its always been a great client for Subversion when I have to use Subversion. That said, its missing some pretty major features, like merging, that make Cornerstone really stand out. This app has all the bells and whistles and is easy to get up and going with. I was hesitant to spend the $60.00 knowing that I wont be using Subversion for too much longer but I can tell you it was worth it. Very well made app that is functional and usable and Im not stuck waiting for them to implement a feature that I need, its all here. Trust me, this is the Cadillac of Subversion clients.

It took me a long time to find a suitable Subversion client for the Mac. What really sold me initially was its look and feel. Its way more feature rich than Versions, but also has the same elegance and simplicity of a native Mac app. It also has a tremendously powerful built-in diff viewer and merging tool which has become essential when working with larger projects. Also, when working with large teams, being able to view diffs during a commit in order to write details logs has proven to be a huge time saver. Its always been difficult to have to navigate back and forth before committing your changes. If youre on the fence about a SVN app, this is definitely the app to go for.

If you need an SVN client that has full support for all SVN features like branching and merging, sparse checkouts, blame, etc, this is the client you want. I miss very little coming from Windows to the Mac, but I have missed TortoiseSVN, until I found Cornerstone 2. Id actually played with Cornerstone v1 and found it lacking, but 2 is revamped and, well, excellent. I highly recommend to anyone who has demanding SVN needs. (I should note, there are other UI SVN clients that are easier to understand if you dont need all the features Cornerstone offers... this app is fairly "technical" in how it maps to SVN functionality.)

I work for a software development company where we use Subversion everyday to manage multiple projects. This tool is a must have for anyone who uses Subversion to its full potential. Most of my coworkers are on Windows machines using TortoiseSVN and they are constantly asking me complete merges and comparisons which are tedious in their environment (people are seriously considering switching to the Mac for THIS application). Not only is Cornerstone amazing as is, but I have already received great tech support. I wanted to associate custom extensions with Cornerstone to utilize the built-in syntax highlighting (which, is great by the way) but that is not currently a feature. Well, Zennaware emailed me back with a solution, that while technically not supported, was incredibly simple to implement, and I am very happy! Honestly, this has to be my favorite software purchase of the year and optimizes the great software only available on a Mac. Incredible!

Ive been disappointed in most SVN clients. I did use Versions for a while but when I found out about Cornerstone and read the reviews I figured I would try it. Cornerstone rocks. I love it, especially because it makes the difficult things easy. Its worth the price.

I tried versions for a bit and it stunk, clunky interface and terrible user experience in my opinion. Only thing I would like to see cornerstone get is a progress bar for big check outs.

I really wanted to love Cornerstone as a replacement for Versions that my team has been using for the last couple of years. On the surface Cornerstone is well done, it provides well thought out accesses to many of the basic features, and brings some interesting approaches to daily repository management. What Cornerstone gets wrong, however, causes more pain than its worth. I choose tools because they make my day-to-day life easier. They get out of the way and let me work the way I need to to be efficient. As it stands of this writing, Cornerstone requires to many forced compromises in workflow. We work with large media asset based projects that for several reasons require the libraries of media to be in the repository. If you have ever had to rename, move, or delete 200+ plus assets in a working copy from within the IDE or the Finder youll understand. Cornerstone provides NO graceful way was dealing with this. Rather I when you want to commit your changes in Cornerstone I have had to manually command-click each and every file and mark them for deletion. Are you kidding me? If your assets are located across several folders this issue gets even worse. Deleting a folder from the Finder, then marking it for deletion has caused Cornerstone to fail to commit the changes to the child objects on several occasions. I emailed their support, and the answer I got was not to delete files or folders from outside of Cornerstone. Conclusion: These guys got a lot right in Cornerstone, and this is a solid application for many people. For our use case, it just forces to many compromises as it stands now.