Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
General
What is RabbitVCS? RabbitVCS is a project with the goal of developing a collection of utilities to allow for better client integration with some of the popular version control systems. Currently, we only support the Nautilus file manager and the Subversion version control system.
What does the VCS stand for? Version Control System. This is a program like Subversion, Git, or Mercurial which allows one or many developers to maintain control over their source code.
Where can I get RabbitVCS? Please go to our Downloads section.
I would like to contribute to RabbitVCS, but I'm not sure where to start. Please go to our Contribute section.
When do you plan to support other VCS', like GIT? Version 0.14 is our milestone release for supporting other VCS'. This is probably a good few months away (from Dec 2009).
Can RabbitVCS replace everything I do from the command line? Possibly, but then again, possibly not :) RabbitVCS covers most of the ordinary usage of SVN, so if your workflow is not too esoteric then it's unlikely you'll need to use the command line. On the other hand, if you're doing something that is complicated or that requires a lot of manual intervention, you will certainly need to know how to use the SVN command line client.
Installation
How can I uninstall NautilusSVN when I did a manual installation? Please see the instructions here.
Troubleshooting
I have installed RabbitVCS, but I don't see any context menu items or emblems! Make sure that your system meets the minimum requirements. If it does, check the list of known issues for possible problems. If the context menu items are showing up but not the emblems or icons, then you may need to update your icon cache via the command: “gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor” as root.
I'm running a 64 bit distribution such as Fedora and RabbitVCS doesn't work!
See our known issues page for an explanation and workaround.
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Discussion
Looks fantastic. I would love to see bzr integrated and Thunar support. Kudos to y'all. Keep up the good work.
RabbitVCS is really great. Would love to see it support Git :)
RabbitVCS rocks!! Would love to see it support for GIT !!!
RabbitVCS is awsome!
Thank you very much for your effort!
By the way, can we just export part of the versioned tree? For example, in TortoiseSVN we have the “Export…” command.
Thanks!
Having recently migrating my development from Windows to Linux and did not realize how much i relied on TourtiseSVN. Thanks so much for the time taken to implement this, this fills an big hole in my development workflow and will help increase productivity. Keep up the good work.
RabbitVCS is perfect for ubuntu systems!!. Would love to see it support CVS
Info for people who are using Ubuntu 10.04 and are wondering why they don't see RabbitVCS menu icons in Nautilus. This is the solution: http://skweez.net/lang/de/menu-icons-in-ubuntu-10-04-lucid/
Hi - just installed Rabbit VCS this morning and it looks like a great tool. There are, however, some issues where I'm not sure if I'm just misunderstanding something, or if it's not working properly.
For instance, if I try to import a file into the repository and I do not specify the file name explicitly (i.o.w. I just tell it which directory to put it into), it simply tells me that that folder exists already and doesn't upload the file.
Also, something which I figure must be a minor bug - in the repository browser, I cannot go back levels. If I descend into a directory structure, I cannot use the ”..” to go back up. It simply keeps loading forever and never actually returns to the previous folder.
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit and have confirmed that I have all the minimum requirements for the program to run. Could you please advise me as to what I could look into to try and fix these issues.
Thank you!
just installed rabbitvcs.
what it needs right now, most importantly is a command that allows checks of local changes compared to repository.
otherwise known as svn status in the terminal which displays non-versioned files, deleted files, newly added ones, or modified files.
aka check for modifications in tortoisesvn.
once they have that they will be perfect.
Thank you for the time you spend just to share this information with us.
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How I run rabbitvcs?
Where in menu I find the icon to start the rabbitvcs?
I am loving the software thus far, but I have hit a bump in road right now while trying to checkout a file I want to work on.
I imported a document by using—- “file:/home/nick/repo/filenamehere” Everything went fine….I think. When I try to checkout the file by typing “file:/home/nick/repo/filenamehere” into the URL box, I get a “bogus revision information” response and a fail.
What am I doing wrong? Any help would be great. Thanks