How to Read This Book
This book is organized into parts that each cover a portion of the Subversion software management “life cycle.” Each part of the book contains some introductory pages discussing how Subversion handles particular concepts. You should read the introductions to get a feel for the overall concepts and how everything ties together, but after that, feel free to jump straight to a particular task. If you are new to source control, it’s perfectly OK to read the book in order—everything will make sense and give you a good grounding in Subversion concepts.
The book is laid out as double-page spreads for each task, with a discussion of the task on the left page and the actual steps to achieve the task on the right page. This works ...