April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
27h 44m
English
Content preview from Java Power ToolsBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 4. Setting Up Version Control Using Subversion
An Introduction to Subversion
When it comes to version control tools, you will often be stuck with whatever happens to be in use in your organization, be it an open source solution like CVS (see Chapter 3) or one of the many commercial products. However, if you are free to choose your open source version control system (or SCM), Subversion is probably one of the best choices around.
Subversion (pronounced “Sub-Version,” for those who are interested in such details) is a relatively new product explicitly designed to overcome the historical shortfalls of CVS (see Chapter 3) and become the new standard in open source version control tools.[4] It is a superbly engineered piece of software, actively developed and maintained by paid staff from CollabNet. Although it does have a very CVS-ish feel to it, its underlying architecture is quite different, and it has a number of major improvements compared to its venerable predecessor.
In this section, we will run through some of the key improvements of Subversion when compared to CVS, and, in doing so, gain some insight into the Subversion architecture and philosophy.
Revision Numbers and Atomic Updates
Perhaps one of the most profound changes between CVS and Subversion is the way each system keeps track of changes.
CVS keeps track of individual file versions. In CVS, when you commit a set of changes, each modified file is updated separately. Tags can be used to identify a snapshot of the repository ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.