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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, December 18, 2004 10:41:59 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Saturday, December 18, 2004 3:41:34 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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subversion is a modern replacement to [CVS]. CVS was originally a bunch of wrapper shell scripts around diff3(1) and [RCS], and is showing it's age.
-Subversion has a "changeset", a commit is one atomic operation that either completes or fails. CVS has one operation per file. Subversion can deal with files being renamed and/or moved, cvs can't. Subversion can versioncontrol directories, CVS can't.
+Subversion has a "changeset", a commit is one atomic operation that either completes or fails. CVS has one operation per file. Subversion can deal with files being renamed and/or moved, cvs can't. Subversion can versioncontrol directories, CVS can't. Of the numerous [CVS] replacements, [Subversion] is quite possibly the most similar to CVS in commandline interface and has a stable support community, making it a good choice if you wish to move from CVS
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Notes:
* to flag a file as executable use <tt>svn propset svn:executable on ''filename''</tt>
