Discusses branches, merges, and tagging, including
best practices for branching and merging, common
use cases, how to undo changes, and how to easily swing
from one branch to the next.
Explains how to configure your Subversion server and
different ways to access your repository:
HTTP, the svn
protocol, and local disk access. It also covers the details
of authentication, authorization and anonymous
access.
Describes the internals of Subversion, the
Subversion filesystem, and the working copy
administrative areas from a programmer's point of view.
Demonstrates how to use the public APIs to write a
program that uses Subversion, and most importantly, how
to contribute to the development of Subversion.
Covers the similarities and differences between
Subversion and CVS, with numerous suggestions on how to
break all the bad habits you picked up from years of
using CVS. Included are descriptions of Subversion
revision numbers, versioned directories, offline
operations, update
vs. status, branches, tags, metadata,
conflict resolution, and authentication.