Matt over at PhotoMatt has posted a link to a Finder plugin (?) that allows you to access Subversion commands from within the Finder in MacOS X.
I think this is a great idea! I used TortoiseCVS on Windows for my Java assignment last semester, and found it very, very useful.
I also just setup a Subversion repository last week for work, and have found a decent client called svnX, but Finder integration is even better.
I think I'm going to have to scrap the repository, though… I created an SVN repository at /Volumes/Data/svn and then imported some projects into /Volumes/Data/svn/PROJECT, thinking that these would act as separate modules (like in CVS). However, I noticed that when I commit something to one project, the revision number in the other projects is incremented as well.
Whoops. Looks like I've added three projects to the one repository. 
I wonder if there's a way to split out the three projects into different repositories, but still keeping the entries (or commits) that have already occurred. Not such an issue, I guess… but confusing nevertheless.
I installed Subversion using Fink, which took quite a while, but it's working quite well now. I'm using the svn+ssh method for non-local machines, and file:// for local users, which seems to work well. Anyway, I'm looking forward to testing out the Subversion plugin on Thursday at work!
P.S. I should also note that I found "Version Control with Subversion" very useful in setting up the server and in normal use.
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