Version Control with Subversion | 
| Authors: C Pilato, Ben Collins-sussman, Brian Fitzpatrick
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Written by members of the development team that maintains Subversion, this is the official guide and reference manual for the popular open source revision control technology. The new edition covers Subversion 1.5 with a complete introduction and guided tour of its capabilities, along with best practice recommendations.br / br / emVersion Control with Subversion/em is useful for people from a wide variety of backgrounds, from those with no previous version control experience to experienced system administrators.br / br / Subversion is the perfect tool to track individual changes when several people collaborate on documentation or, particularly, software development projects. As a more powerful and flexible successor to the CVS revision control system, Subversion makes life so much simpler, allowing each team member to work separately and then merge source code changes into a single repository that keeps a record of each separate version.br / br / Inside the updated edition Version Control with Subversion, you'll find: ul liAn introduction to Subversion and basic concepts behind version control/li liA guided tour of the capabilities and structure of Subversion 1.5/li /liGuidelines for installing and configuring Subversion to manage programming, documentation, or any other team-based project/li liDetailed coverage of complex topics such as branching and repository administration/li liAdvanced features such as properties, externals, and access control/li liA guide to best practices/li liComplete Subversion reference and troubleshooting guide/li /ul If you've never used version control, you'll find everything you need to get started. And if you're a seasoned CVS pro, this book will help you make a painless leap into Subversion.
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 Good reference for SVN specifics, especially the new version 1.5 features December 21, 2008
I have been using CVS and SVN for more than 10 years. The enhanced merge feature in SVN 1.5 is a much needed capability. This book does a good job of describing branching and merging, what is really happening in SVN, and how to use SVN properly to meet our branching needs. That said, if you are doing multi-site, mostly independent multi-developer software development and haven't implemented a SCM system, I suggest you use GIT.br /
 Had a good start with it December 13, 2008
This book is the official manual (2nd edition in English) for Subversion 1.5. You can also read it online, but I like the printed edition in O'Reilly quality. Translations into other languages are available on the Internet, and some (like German) are also available in printed form.br /br /After years of using CVS as a versioning system, I had to switch over to Subversion. It is commonplace to say that CVS users will easily switch over to Subversion and that is true. The basic commands are identical and I had no problems as a user of Subversion. But if you need to work with branches and tags; if you need to do merges, set up a new repository or even migrate a repository, then you will notice that Subversion is very much different from CVS. At that point, I started reading the Subversion manual and it answered all my questions.br /br /Some time later, a helped a colleague in administrating large repositories and the book was useful again. We had to move a repository (many GigaBytes) from one server and integrate it into another repository on a different server. I looked up the answers to some questions in the book and migration was successful.br /br /So, I can really recommend this book. It is inexpensive, good printing quality and useful in daily work.
An Introduction to version control from its basics December 25, 2007
Subversion, a successor to CVS is a widly used, novel approach to versioning of filesystems. Novelties to CVS are that versioning of the whole filesystem instead of single file, which made it possilble to have directories under version control, efficient storage of versioning meta-data, making it possible to have binary files under version control. The book itself introduces the basic concepts of version contol by focusing on the features of subversion. An extra chapter - in appendix - summerizes all the differences to CVS. This chapter is very welcome to people used to CVS who want to - or have to - get used to subversion. To me, as an assistant lecturer at the University of Miskolc, the book is going to be a textbook for stundents of software engineering to getting used to version control systems.
I wish all documentation was this good May 3, 2007
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This is one of the only software books I've read cover to cover. It makes sense, it tells you thing in the right order: It gives you the big picture then goes into detail. br /br /The authors are smart and this book makes you smart like them.br /br /I went 15 years rarely using but not really understanding or trusting CVS. Now I run my own subversion server and love it.
Excellent for VCS Beginners and Experts May 1, 2007
Looking to convert your CVS to Subversion? Want to know what VCS/Subversion is all about? What to know how to admin a Subversion system? Want a reference guide of the Subversion man pages in "dead-tree edition?"br /br /This is your book.br /br /From beginner to expert in VCS, this view into the Subversion solution will be the only thing you need on your shelf (unless you need extremely advanced/complicated setups). The book covers the basics and general administrative techniques/skills required for your day-to-day needs. It also covers, quite well, the setup of the core system (daemon running, HTTP-cooperative running, tunneling, etc.).br /br /Definitely recommended for everyone.
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