This book would not be possible (nor very useful) if
Subversion did not exist. For that, the authors would like to
thank Brian Behlendorf and CollabNet for the vision to fund such
a risky and ambitious new Open Source project; Jim Blandy for
the original Subversion name and design–we love you, Jim;
Karl Fogel for being such a good friend and a great community
leader, in that order.[1]
Thanks to O'Reilly and our editors, Linda Mui and Tatiana
Diaz for their patience and support.
Finally, we thank the countless people who contributed to
this book with informal reviews, suggestions, and fixes: While
this is undoubtedly not a complete list, this book would be
incomplete and incorrect without the help of: David Anderson,
Jani Averbach, Ryan Barrett, Francois Beausoleil, Jennifer
Bevan, Matt Blais, Zack Brown, Martin Buchholz, Brane Cibej,
John R. Daily, Peter Davis, Olivier Davy, Robert P. J. Day, Mo
DeJong, Brian Denny, Joe Drew, Nick Duffek, Ben Elliston, Justin
Erenkrantz, Shlomi Fish, Julian Foad, Chris Foote, Martin
Furter, Dave Gilbert, Eric Gillespie, David Glasser, Matthew
Gregan, Art Haas, Eric Hanchrow, Greg Hudson, Alexis Huxley,
Jens B. Jorgensen, Tez Kamihira, David Kimdon, Mark Benedetto
King, Andreas J. Koenig, Nuutti Kotivuori, Matt Kraai, Scott
Lamb, Vincent Lefevre, Morten Ludvigsen, Paul Lussier, Bruce
A. Mah, Philip Martin, Feliciano Matias, Patrick Mayweg, Gareth
McCaughan, Jon Middleton, Tim Moloney, Christopher Ness, Mats
Nilsson, Joe Orton, Amy Lyn Pilato, Kevin Pilch-Bisson, Dmitriy
Popkov, Michael Price, Mark Proctor, Steffen Prohaska, Daniel
Rall, Jack Repenning, Tobias Ringstrom, Garrett Rooney, Joel
Rosdahl, Christian Sauer, Larry Shatzer, Russell Steicke, Sander
Striker, Erik Sjoelund, Johan Sundstroem, John Szakmeister,
Mason Thomas, Eric Wadsworth, Colin Watson, Alex Waugh, Chad
Whitacre, Josef Wolf, Blair Zajac, and the entire Subversion
community.
Thanks to my wife Frances, who, for many months, got to
hear, “But honey, I'm still working on the book”,
rather than the usual, “But honey, I'm still doing
email.” I don't know where she gets all that patience!
She's my perfect counterbalance.
Thanks to my extended family and friends for their sincere
encouragement, despite having no actual interest in the
subject. (You know, the ones who say, “Ooh, you wrote a
book?”, and then when you tell them it's a computer
book, sort of glaze over.)
Thanks to all my close friends, who make me a rich, rich man.
Don't look at me that way–you know who you are.
Thanks to my parents for the perfect low-level formatting,
and being unbelievable role models. Thanks to my son for the
opportunity to pass that on.
From Brian W. Fitzpatrick
Huge thanks to my wife Marie for being incredibly
understanding, supportive, and most of all, patient. Thank
you to my brother Eric who first introduced me to UNIX
programming way back when. Thanks to my Mom and Grandmother
for all their support, not to mention enduring a Christmas
holiday where I came home and promptly buried my head in my
laptop to work on the book.
To Mike and Ben: It was a pleasure working with you on the
book. Heck, it's a pleasure working with you at work!
To everyone in the Subversion community and the Apache
Software Foundation, thanks for having me. Not a day goes by
where I don't learn something from at least one of you.
Lastly, thanks to my Grandfather who always told me that
“freedom equals responsibility.” I couldn't agree
more.
Special thanks to Amy, my best friend and wife of nine
incredible years, for her love and patient support, for
putting up with the late nights, and for graciously enduring
the version control processes I've imposed on her. Don't
worry, Sweetheart–you'll be a TortoiseSVN wizard in no
time!
Gavin, there probably aren't many words in this book that
you can successfully “sound out” at this stage,
but when you've finally got a handle on the written form of
this crazy language we speak, I hope you're as proud of your
Daddy as he is of you.
Aidan, Daddy luffoo et ope Aiduh yike contootoo as much as
Aiduh yike batetball, base-ball, et bootball.
[2]
Mom and Dad, thanks for your constant support and
enthusiasm. Mom- and Dad-in-law, thanks for all of the same
plus your fabulous daughter.
Hats off to Shep Kendall, through whom the world of
computers was first opened to me; Ben Collins-Sussman, my
tour-guide through the open-source world; Karl Fogel–you
are my .emacs; Greg
Stein, for oozing practical programming know-how; Brian
Fitzpatrick–for sharing this writing experience with me.
To the many folks from whom I am constantly picking up new
knowledge–keep dropping it!
Finally, to the One who perfectly demonstrates creative
excellence–thank You.
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