Introduction

Subversion is a wildly popular open source version control system, available for free over the Internet. Subversion is widely considered the de facto standard[1] for version control tools, even though such a thing is difficult to measure, and as a developer, you are likely to encounter Subversion as part of your work.

Subversion is a mature, fully featured system that is commonly used by both commercial and open source development teams. You can buy commercial support and consulting services to help you install, configure, and use Subversion. If you don’t want the hassle of running a Subversion server, you can get a third party to do it for you, at a low cost or even for free.

Subversion is a centralized version control system, ...

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