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Subversion is a version control system that attempts to take the goodness from CVS (such as an easily automated command-line interface and a lack of locking) and get rid of some of its long-standing shortcomings -- such as the lack of 'atomic commits'. [1]

• http://subversion.tigris.org/

Subversion can use Apache for a server based repository. One can then access the repository via the http:// or svn://-protocol instead of file://. Accessing a server can also be encrypted (https and svn+ssh)

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• http://the.taoofmac.com/space/Subversion
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ --Version Control with Subversion
• http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/csobaniec/Papers/svn-refcard.pdf --Subversion Quick Reference Card
  
  
• http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html --FAQ

Texts

• http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3499816 --A Crash Course in Subversion
• http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/10923_3503151_1 --A Crash Course in Subversion, Part 2
  
  
• http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/02/1454229&tid=130 --Version control for non-programmers with Subversion
• http://crew.ccs.neu.edu/wiki/SubversionTalk --A Crash Course in Version Control using Subversion
  
• http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/svn.html --My Experiences With Subversion
  
• http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/06/02/1454229.shtml --Version control for non-programmers with Subversion
  
• http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html --Keeping Your Life in Subversion
  
  
• http://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/quicksvn.html --Subversion on Windows quick start
• http://www.clearmud.homeip.net/subversion.html --How to Setup a Subversion Server on Windows
  
  
• http://www.design-ireland.net/internet/browsing-15.php --An Introduction to Version Control Using Subversion
  
  
• http://www.petefreitag.com/item/244.cfm --Using Subversion Hooks to send out build emails
  
• More about Subversion, quite contra
  
• Single-User Subversion

SVN vs. (CVS, etc.)

• Subversion - a better CVS
  
• How does Subversion compare to XYZ Version Control System?
• Subversion Delivers Version Control that CVS Can't

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• commits are truly atomic - particularly for multi-file commits
• renaming files keeps version history
• Branching and tagging is cheap (constant time)
  • only copies single directory node (with revision)
  • branches (and tags) are stored as deltas (not full copies)
  • branches (and tags) exist physically
• reduced client-server communication (mainly for update and commit)
• global revisioning (the repository is versioned as a whole - not individual files)
• 'revert' replaces 'delete and update'

Diggin' SVN

• Splitting, Merging, and Organizing a Subversion Repository
  • that blog has much more to say about SVN, check it out!
• Shelves in Subversion
• http://markphip.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-undo-commit-in-subversion.html
• Subversion tips: working with branches
  
• Subversion branching quick start by NedBatchelder
  • explaines some branch-types and gives additional resources of information: VersionControl#branching
    
  
  
• from [2] and [3]
  • Branches are for the minority.
    • put the code that most developers want on the trunk, and put the minority on the branch.
  • Put the branch revision number in the comment.
  • Backport to the branch.
    • I.e. update/merge the branch with trunk regularly.
  • Put the revision number in the backport.
  • Prune back dead branches.
    • To keep your branches directory manageable, you can delete the branch when you are done with it. You still have the history of the files in Subversion, and can even retrieve the full branch later if you need it.
  
  
• http://markphip.blogspot.com/2007/03/subversion-blog-posts-to-read.html (toberead)
  
• Subversion Log Filtering
  
• Ever wish you’d branched first?
  • three ways to still branch.
    • just commit
    • copy WC to branch-URL, and checkout
    • copy WC to branch-URL, switch, rename directory
  • BASE-revision: the revision of the last update that was run against the working-copy.

Books

• http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/10/219234&tid=156&tid=185&tid=6 --Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion

Auxiliary

• http://base-art.net/Articles/18/ --Bringing RSS to SVN (with Python)
• Create a html-view on the projects in a repository with the PHP-script Attach:svn_index.php.txt taken from the TortoiseSVN-tutorial (Chapter 3. Setting Up A Server)
  
  
• http://dark.clansoft.dk/~mbn/svnservice/ --install Subversion as Windows Service.

Clients

• http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/10/svn_uis.html --Subversion UI Shootout
  
  
• Eric, a PythonIDE integrates Subversion.
• http://esvn.umputun.com/ --eSvn - a GUI frontend to the Subversion revision system
• http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/ --RapidSVN?
  
  
• TortoiseSVN

Language Bindings

• http://pysvn.tigris.org/

Migration

from CVS

• http://sial.org/howto/subversion/cvs-migrate/ --Migrating from CVS to Subversion
• http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ --cvs2svn (a Python-script)
• http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4848 --Subverting CVS with Subversion

from VSS

• http://www.riseup.com/~brettw/dev/VSS2Subversion.html
• http://www.dehora.net/journal/2003/09/migrating_to_subversion_ii.html --Migrating to Subversion II
• http://geekswithblogs.net/jwatson/archive/2005/09/05/52735.aspx --Subversion and TortoiseSVN Installation Cookbook

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Misc

• http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=103399 --Visual Source Safe 2005 versus Subversion
• http://www.artima.com/chapters/book.jsp?num=92559 --Pragmatic Version Control using Subversion by MikeMason?
• http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0407/000026.html --An Afternoon with Subversion
  • SVN neets network access only for update and commit-operations.
    • Disconnected Version Control
• http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware2/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=72959 --Keeping track of code
• http://www.maynidea.com/topics/subversionstinks.html --Why Subversion stinks
  • Some see those as pros, not cons.
• http://www.dmbcllc.com/WhyWeMovedToSubversion.aspx --Why We Moved to Subversion from Visual SourceSafe

Set Up

• http://svn1clicksetup.tigris.org/ --Svn1ClickSetup
  
  
• http://www.phpcult.com/docs/index.php/Configuring_Apache_2_and_Subversion
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch06s04.html
• http://svn.spears.at/
• http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/03/apache2-subversion/

Problems

I am using a rather old version of SVN (1.1.4) because my Win2k cannot handle a newer one (my system seems to be flawed here).
Old versions of SVN cannot cooperate with Apache 2.2, though.