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Gerrit Code Review vs SVN (Subversion): What are the differences?
Gerrit Code Review: OpenSource Git Code Review Tool. Gerrit is a self-hosted pre-commit code review tool. It serves as a Git hosting server with option to comment incoming changes. It is highly configurable and extensible with default guarding policies, webhooks, project access control and more; SVN (Subversion): Enterprise-class centralized version control for the masses. Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations.
Gerrit Code Review and SVN (Subversion) are primarily classified as "Code Review" and "Version Control System" tools respectively.
"Code review" is the primary reason why developers consider Gerrit Code Review over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use" was stated as the key factor in picking SVN (Subversion).
SVN (Subversion) is an open source tool with 327 GitHub stars and 120 GitHub forks. Here's a link to SVN (Subversion)'s open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, SVN (Subversion) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 77 company stacks & 59 developers stacks; compared to Gerrit Code Review, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Gerrit Code Review
- Code review13
- Good workflow11
- Cleaner repository story10
- Open source9
- Good integration with Jenkins9
- Unlimited repo support5
- Comparison dashboard2
Pros of SVN (Subversion)
- Easy to use20
- Simple code versioning13
- User/Access Management5
- Complicated code versionioning by Subversion3
- Free2
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Cons of Gerrit Code Review
Cons of SVN (Subversion)
- Branching and tagging use tons of disk space7