Introduction to Subversion

Improvements over CVS:

• Versioning of directories. This allows files and directories to be moved from the client program without loosing its history.

• Transactions. Local changes will either be committed completely or not at all.

• Consistent handling of text and binary files. A binary differencing algorithm works on text as well as binary files.

Additional features:

• CVS-like interface. With some knowledge about the cvs client programm using subversion will not proove hard at all.

• Flexible network access. See Multi-line svn:ignore and svn:keywords

• Versioned metadata. See Tunnelling