June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
319 pages
12h 58m
English
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Version control is the art of managing changes to information. It has long been a crit-
ical tool for programmers, who typically spend their time making small changes to
software and then undoing those changes the next day. But the usefulness of version
control software extends far beyond the bounds of the software development world.
Anywhere you can find people using computers to manage information that changes
often, there is room for version control. And that’s where Subversion comes into
play.
This chapter contains a high-level introduction to Subversion: what it is; what it
does; how to get it.
What Is Subversion?
Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is, Subversion man-
ages files and directories over time. A tree of files is placed into a central repository.
The repository is much like an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every
change ever made to the files and directories. This lets you recover older versions of
data, or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people
think of a version control system as a sort of time machine.
Subversion can access its repository across networks, which allows it to be used by
people on different computers. At some level, the ability for various people ...
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