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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:48:49 pm | by EdmundHorner | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, November 6, 2003 11:11:36 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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Subversion is a replacement for [CVS] which fills in a lot of the limitations of [CVS] such as versioned metadata, and allowing cp and mv of files without problem.
-It deals with "change-sets"
rather than CVS's changes to individual files, so that large changes can easily be rolled back.
+It deals with changes to the directory tree as a whole,
rather than CVS's changes to individual files, so that large changes can easily be rolled back.
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My attempts at playing with subversion has been quite fascinating. The most important thing I learnt, is never try and version control a 1.1 gig binary file.
Subversion is considered quite alphaish at the moment, but I'm really looking forward to it being finished. -- PerryLorier
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+Subversion has just released version 1.0.0. I recommend you try it out. I've been playing around with it and have found it to be a nice alternative to cvs. :] -- ReedLoden
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For detailed information read [The Definitive Guide to Subversion | http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/index.html]. Also see http://subversion.tigris.org/
