Nifty SVN

Subversion in the Source Control view: changes, changelists, diffs, commit, update, blame and branches, in VS Code, Cursor and more.

Maintained. No sign-in. No telemetry. Works in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium and other editors that use Open VSX.

Why

Plenty of teams still use Subversion, and the most popular SVN extension has been archived. Nifty SVN is a maintained, fast replacement that works the way VS Code's built-in Git support does.

Features

Reviewing a diff against BASE, adding a new file and committing just one changelist from the Source Control view

The Source Control view with changes, a changelist and an unversioned file, and a diff against BASE

Show File History: the revisions of a file with their authors, pick one to see what it changed

Inline blame: author, age and revision at the end of the current line

The Source Control view you know. Changes, Unversioned, Conflicts, and one group per changelist, with a count on the Source Control icon and M / A / D / U / C badges in the Explorer.
See what changed. Gutter markers show edits against BASE; click a file for a side-by-side diff.
Commit with Ctrl+Enter in the message box: everything, the files you select, or a whole changelist (inline button). Multi-line messages are kept intact.
Everyday operations: update, add, revert (with confirmation), delete, resolve conflicts (keep yours, theirs, or mark the merged file as resolved), add to or remove from changelists, add to svn:ignore, clean up.
File history. Show File History lists the revisions of a file; pick one to see exactly what it changed.
Inline blame. Author, age and revision at the end of the current line.
Switch branch or tag. Pick trunk, any branch or any tag and switch your working copy.
Where am I? The status bar shows the branch and revision, e.g. branches/release-2@r4812. Click it to update.
Works anywhere svn runs: VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Remote SSH and containers.

Requirements

The svn command-line client (Subversion 1.8+):

Windows: TortoiseSVN (tick command line client tools during setup) or SlikSVN
macOS: brew install subversion
Linux: sudo apt install subversion (or your distribution's package)

Nifty SVN finds it on your PATH or in the usual install folders, or set nifty.svn.path.

Commands

Command	What it does
`Commit`	Commit all changes, selected files or a changelist
`Update`	`svn update`
`Refresh`	Re-read the working copy status
`Add` / `Revert` / `Delete`	For the selected files
`Resolve Conflict…`	Keep the merged file, yours or theirs
`Add to Changelist…` / `Remove from Changelist`	Organise changes
`Add to svn:ignore`	Ignore an unversioned file
`Clean Up`	`svn cleanup`
`Open Changes`	Diff against BASE
`Show File History`	Revisions of a file, with diffs
`Toggle Inline Blame`	Blame on the current line
`Switch Branch or Tag…`	`svn switch`

Settings

Setting	Default	What it does
`nifty.svn.path`	(empty)	Path to `svn`; empty means find it
`nifty.svn.historyLimit`	`100`	Revisions shown in file history

Install

VS Code: search for "Nifty SVN" in the Extensions view, or install from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Kiro, Antigravity: install from Open VSX.

Privacy

This extension collects no telemetry and needs no account. It only runs your svn client, which talks to your own Subversion server.

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