Clearvision have today added a new product to their range of integration tools which enable customers to fully bi-directionally integrate multi-product Software Change and Configuration Management environments using Open Source products such as Git, Subversion, Trac and Mercurial in addition to vendor products such as IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest.

The Subversion Trac integration product (Trac2SVN) will provide bi-directional integration between the Open Source change management tool Trac and Open Source Subversion.

Building on the existing, successful family of Configuration Management and Change Management integrations (Jira2SVN, CQ2SVN, CB2SVN), Clearvision has enabled Trac and SVN users to work more efficiently and effectively by automating (and where necessary enforcing) a process, minimising opportunities for human error while increasing the audit trail and traceability for organisations.

Clearvision is working on extending each of their integration tools to work with the increasingly popular open source distributed version control tools Git and Mercurial.

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Clearvision provide Trac and Subversion Training (including Subversion eLearning), Subversion Consulting, Subversion Tool development and bespoke plugin development.

If you are a Git user, especially those with experience of Subversion (SVN), you should seriously consider downloading TortoiseGit 1.3.2:
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/downloads/list

TortoiseGit is a port of the popular TortoiseSVN product for Git and an excellent introductory piece of software for git allowing Windows users to interface smoothly and simply with the Git Open Source version control system.

Will it give you all of the Git functionality? No.
Will it give you a lot of usable functionality? Yes!

It is far easier to get through the steep Git learning curve using TortoiseGit, there is a clear and helpful TortoiseGit user manual. Lots of people have learned about Subversion (SVN) from the TortoiseSVN guide and I suspect TortoiseGit will help just as well.

There were 20,000 TortoiseGit downloads for version 1.2 but version 1.32 was released 4 days ago and we expect the downloads for this to soar. There is a pretty simple set of instructions on the web site on how to create an XP server which requires the following code,

• msysgit 1.6.4 (Client and Server)
• CopSSH 3.0.3 (Server only)
• TortoiseGit 1.2.1.0 (Client only)

However you can still learn a lot just using the client.

We're really excited about the future of this product and are sure it will revolutionise Git in the same way as it did for Subversion, adding popularity to Git which is already rapidly becoming an industry leader.

Clearvision provide Git Training, Git Consulting, Git Support and Git Products including our Git Agile Application Lifecycle Management solution UCMGIT and the ClearCase integration product CC2Git.

On 21st January 2010 the latest Subversion 1.6 patch was release – version 1.6.9

Subversion 1.6.9 is primarily a bug fix release, fixes include:

• Support for Berkeley DB 4.8.
• Reduce errors when committing to an out-of-date pass-through proxy.
• Fix segmentation faults, one in FSFS, the other when using "svn resolve".
• "Future-proofing" the 1.6.x release line by allowing 1.6.9 to notice when the current working copy was created by a 1.7-era Subversion client.

You can find more information at http://www.tigris.org.

You can download Subversion 1.6.9 here: http://subversion.tigris.org/

Clearvision provide Subversion training, subversion consulting, subversion support and subversion products including our Subversion Agile Application Lifecycle Management solution UCM4SVN and the JIRA integration product JIRA2SVN.

CB2GIT will provide bi-directional integration between Intland CodeBeamer and Open Source Git, building on the existing Git integration for CodeBeamer and extending it by enforcing process and minimising opportunities for human error.

Based on the success of CB2SVN (the CodeBeamer Subversion Integration), Clearvision are planning to extend their in-depth integration for the Award winning Codebeamer Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution to one of the fastest growing version control tools in the market, the open source Git product.

It is envisaged that the CodeBeamer Git Integration will follow in the footsteps of other Clearvision integrations such as JIRA2SVN, CB2SVN, CQ2SVN and CC2SVN by enabling users to record modified Git files against a list of available CodeBeamer tracker items on commit. CB2SVN removes the need to remember issue numbers and ensures only valid issues can be selected (no more mis-typed change numbers).

The integration between CodeBeamer and GIT will be bidirectional, allowing users to also record CodeBeamer tracker-item information against the Git Log.

CB2GIT extends the existing GIT integration in several key areas and provides full traceability for organisations.

As an example: There is one instance of Git and one CodeBeamer instance. User 'David' commits to Git as usual. CB2GIT displays all tracker items currently assigned to David based on the fully configurable filters. David selects a CodeBeamer tracker item and completes the commit process

Another example shows a common configuration of multiple Git repositories associated with different CodeBeamer instances. Projects C and D share a CodeBeamer instance. Upon commit, issues associated with a particular project are displayed based on configured filters.

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Clearvision provide Git Training, Git Consulting, Git Support and Git Products including our Git Agile Application Lifecycle Management solution UCMGIT and the ClearCase integration product CC2Git.