Do TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN conflict when simultaneously installed?

Question

I am interested if it's safe to install both TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN on the same computer? All our corporate projects are controlled by CVS, but I want to use SVN for my personal documents (and TortoiseSVN as client). Is it possible?

Thanks!

Answer 1

They both can be used together with no (ok, almost no) problems. One problem you might experience is that some of the overlay icons won't show up anymore. This is because Windows has only about 12 slots available for overlay icons, and with both TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS installed, they together use more than the 12 available slots.

See this FAQ entry about this: The overlay icons appear, but not all of them!

However, TortoiseSVN has created a common overlay handler, which other Tortoise clients can use to avoid this very issue. TortoiseCVS now uses that common handler too, but that isn't included in the stable release yet. You'd have to use an unstable version from here: http://testpilot.tortoisecvs.org/ Using TortoiseSVN 1.5.x and TortoiseCVS from the testpilot site will give you all the overlays for both SVN and CVS working copies.

Answer 2

They can be used without any problem on the same machine. Even in the same folders if you want...

Answer 3

I had both of it installed and met no problems.