I’ve been waiting for Versions to come out for about a year now.  I have been using Subversion for a couple years now and there really hasn’t been any clients for the Mac that I have given me the Mac experience I have been used to in quite a few of my other applications.  I had tried ZigVersion a while back and I don’t know if it’s changed much, but it didn’t work out so well for me.  It wasn’t a bad experience, it just wasn’t what I was looking for.  On the PC side, I use TortoiseSVN, but the Mac-like client didn’t seem to function as well as the PC.  Since then I’ve been using SmartSVN.  This has so far worked out the best for me, but I don’t really care for the interface and since it’s a Java app it doesn’t seem to play well with Spaces.

I was looking for something better and I saw a post on TUAW about a year ago and decided to sign up for the mailing list.  Today I saw another post that the beta had been released so I thought I would try it out.  I loaded all my current repositories into the client and everything seemed to work okay today.  The interface was new to me, but after a short while I was able to get used to where everything is located.

I found a couple of authentication glitches and it would be nice if I could create a folder in the bookmarks so that I can group repositories for different clients together.  These issues are pretty small and by no means prevent me from getting work done.  Actually compared to the other clients that I’ve used the experience seems much better.  It’s probably one of the fastest I’ve used under Leopard and as of right now it seems to be playing well with Spaces.  These are huge pluses for me.

I’ll be continuing to use it in the next few weeks and I’ll update this post if I have any new issues or anything else I would like to see in future versions.  If you’ve used the client or are looking for one on the Mac give this one a look.  Also if there are others that I don’t know about I wouldn’t mind giving another client a shot either.