作者：Ben Collins-Sussman,Brian W. Fitzpatrick & C. Michael Pilato
出版社：O'Reilly
文件格式：CHM
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Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000 byCollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain current and historical versionsof files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal isto be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used ConcurrentVersions System (CVS).

Subversion is well-known in the open source community and is used onmany open source projects, including Apache Software Foundation, KDE,GNOME, Free Pascal, FreeBSD, GCC, Python, Django, Ruby, Mono,SourceForge.net, ExtJS and Tigris.org. Google Code also providesSubversion hosting for their open source projects. BountySource systemsuse it exclusively. Codeplex offers access to both subversion as wellas other types of clients.

Subversion is also being adopted in the corporate world. In a 2007report by Forrester Research, Subversion was recognized as the soleleader in the Standalone Software Configuration Management (SCM)category and a strong performer in the Software Configuration andChange Management (SCCM) category.

Subversion is released under the Apache License, making it free software.
原书地址：http://svnbook.red-bean.com/