Subversion support in Emacs?

[Neal D. Becker]

D. D. Brierton wrote:

> I haven't had a chance to test out any of the test or RC releases of FC3
> yet. I'm also unsure of how patched the version of Emacs is. Does FC3
> come with any Emacs support for Subversion out of the box? As subversion
> now seems to be the FC revision control tool of choice it would be nice
> if Emacs had support for it as part of the core distribution.
> 
> I know that Emacs CVS now includes vc-svn.el which is an svn backend for
> vc, and the version in Emacs CVS seems to be an amalgam or superset of
> the version of vc-svn.el which was part of Subversion. That would seem
> to be the ideal candidate for inclusion; perhaps it already is included?
> There is also psvn.el which is an svn version of pcl-cvs. Whilst
> searching around I noticed that ALTLinux provide an emacs-subversion RPM
>
(http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1486585/com/emacs-subversion-1.0.9-alt1.i586.rpm.html)
> which includes psvn.el, vc-svn.el and a site-start.d/subversion.el.
> Perhaps something like that could be included with future version of FC if
> that functionality is not already included in either the Emacs or the
> Subversion RPM.
> 
> Best, Darren
> 

psvn.el will work on xemacs.  vc-svn will not AFAIK.