First, on getting a basic command-line version of Subversion: ever since Leopard, this has been included in Mac OS X–in the base package, always there. You don’t particularly need to install the Developer tools: although they use Subversion, they don’t include Subversion: it’s built into the system. So Leopard-and-later (10.5.x and later), you already have Subversion. Sweet! And any lingering Tiger users have probably finished any set-up they’re ever going to do on that box. So the “step 1″ listed in this blog has become unnecessary for pretty much everyone.

Second, although there once was a version of SCPlugin that used the installed Subversion, this is no longer the case. Rather, SCPlugin comes with its own, built-in copy of Subversion. Installing your own (back on Tiger), or using Apple’s (Leopard and beyond) is still handy for Subversion operations from the command line, or from some other Subversion clients that don’t come with Subversion built in, but is not strictly necessary for SCPlugin now. And just in case, we do make our built-in one available to you for those other uses as well, as a link in /usr/local/bin/svn.

Third comes the sad, sad tale of Snow Leopard. For OS 10.6, Apple made some major changes to Finder (converted it to Cocoa, made it 64-bit capable, and abandoned Contextual Menu Items). I’m sure these changes are unspeakable wonderfullness for some reason or other, but they totally flummoxed SCPlugin. We’re buried in Snow, as it were: our menus don’t appear in Finder’s menu any more, and Finder file icons don’t get badged any more (although you still see them occasionally in find-file dialogs of other programs). While we dig ourselves out, we’ve provided an additional component SCToolbarButton. After installing SCPlugin, you drag this program to somewhere convenient, and then click it to do Subversion stuff. The expected menu appears, and you’re off to the races. Popular places for the Button include:
– The Finder tool-bar (hence the name;-), at the top of each Finder file-browsing window
– The Dock
– Dock replacements, like Trampoline

Might I suggest updating the instructions to represent the current version improvements like not in System Preferences. I had to read quite a bit more to catch this, nice that at least it was present.

Again – very cool. One less thing to open!!!!

That’s interesting. Do you have some other raw text editor you’re familiar with, vi or emacs or something like that? You can use any text editor on the .bash_profile file.

As to why you have no pico …

Try this: type “/usr/bin/pico .bash_profile”, see if that works.

If not, do you have a file named /Library/Receipts/BSD.pkg? (Type “file /Library/Receipts/BSD.pkg”, does it say ”/Library/Receipts/BSD.pkg: directory”?) If not: you have not installed the BSD package (which I guess is optional).

Try this instead:
open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app .bash_profile

svn: Can’t convert string from native encoding to ‘UTF-8′:
svn: Gruppem?\195?\184der

I´ve tried to type the command:

pico .bash_profile

but i get the error:

-bash: pico: command not found

Can anybody help me?

- Michael