Part 3Working with a Team

Subversion is primarily a collaboration tool. Although you can use Subversion on your own, its real power comes when it enables a large team to work together on a single project. This part of the book describes how to collaborate with other members of your team as you all make changes to files stored in the repository.

For programming teams, a typical development session will involve updating to the latest version of the code, making changes as they complete development tasks, and finally committing changes to the repository. Many teams accelerate their development cycle to include multiple “update, change, commit” cycles throughout the day. This is definitely a good way to keep in sync with other people working on ...

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