Chapter 14. The Subversion Version Control System

The Subversion version control system is a powerful, open source system for management of file and directory versions. Designed from the ground up to support distributed development, it offers many leading-edge features.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Conceptual overview

• Obtaining Subversion

• Using Subversion: a quick tour

• The Subversion command line client: svn

• Repository administration: svnadmin

• Examining the repository: svnlook

• Providing remote access: svnserve

• Other Subversion components

Version control was introduced in Chapter 12, which contained a comparison of Subversion, CVS, and other popular systems. Most of the material in the current chapter is adapted from Version Control with Subversion (O'Reilly). See that book for much more information on Subversion.