June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
319 pages
12h 58m
English
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Subversion’s Features
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After fourteen months of coding, Subversion became self-hosting on August 31,
2001. That is, Subversion developers stopped using CVS to manage Subversion’s
own source code, and started using Subversion instead.
While CollabNet started the project, and still funds a large chunk of the work (it
pays the salaries of a few full-time Subversion developers), Subversion is run like
most open-source projects, governed by a loose, transparent set of rules that encour-
age meritocracy. CollabNet’s copyright license is fully compliant with the Debian
Free Software Guidelines. In other words, anyone is free to download, modify, and
redistribute Subversion as he pleases; no permission from CollabNet or anyone else
is required.
Subversion’s Features
When discussing the features that Subversion brings to the version control table, it is
often helpful to speak of them in terms of how they improve upon CVS’s design. If
you’re not familiar with CVS, you may not understand all of these features. And if
you’re not familiar with version control at all, your eyes may glaze over unless you
first read Chapter 2, in which we provide a gentle introduction to version control in
general.
Subversion provides:
Directory versioning
CVS only tracks the history of individual files, but Subversion ...
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