Six months ago I decided to find a new Windows client for Subversion. TortoiseSVN braked heavily, and buggy from time to time.
The requirements for the new client were the following: a free (or relatively inexpensive) product, a lively and constantly updated, good and convenient UI, embedded plug-ins, implementation not in Java.
I was looking for a short time. Thanks to Wikipedia (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svn) for a good list of svn-clients. The choice fell on two products:
RapidSVN and
SmartSVN . The first is written in C ++, the second in Java (I decided to just look, although I did not fit the requirements).
RapidSVN turned out to be raw and buggy (some kind of alert always crashed). He lived a maximum of half an hour.
SmartSVN immediately attracted a normal human interface.
As it turned out, the trial version (SmartSVN 2.1 Foundation). Some functions worked limitedly.
After a brief search, I found a
demo license for the professional version for 1 month. Professional Version pleased me with a good diff, TMate plugin, a convenient project manager.
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The TMate plugin is a kind of log for the project. The output of logged data can be sorted by the author of changes, the date of changes (in chronological order), by week and by year.

As a supplement to svn, you can also install the
FishEye utility, a web interface to repositories, with the ability to monitor, search and analyze work on a specific project.
PS : the difference between the Foundation and Professional versions can be found
here .