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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Part 4Using the History

Version control tools like Subversion allow you to do more than simply keep your files in a safe place and collaborate with your team. Subversion stores every revision of every file that was ever committed to the repository. You can think of this detailed history as a kind of time machine—you can go back to any point in history if something goes wrong.

More than just being able to go back to a specific point in time and do things differently, Subversion’s powerful history functions let you understand how things got to be the way they are today. Often you’ll need to do some detective work to figure out why or when a certain bug was introduced, who last made a particular change, or which people were involved in developing ...

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