Part 2Working with Subversion

Now that we have Subversion installed and a repository set up, we can begin doing useful work. While Subversion is designed to enable team collaboration, you can also use it individually. If you are programming or authoring on your own, the diff, history, and commit tools can help you organize your work. You can also use Subversion as a kind of safe “backup” copy for your files.

In this section, you’ll see how to get a working copy of the files from Subversion. After you make changes to your files, you commit the changes to the repository. We’ll also cover renaming and moving files and directories.

In this section and for the rest of the book, we’ll be using an example project called mBench. mBench is a simple ...

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