Version Control with Subversion by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian Fitzpatrick, C. Pilato, C Pilato

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(Paperback - 2nd ed.)

  • Pub. Date: September 2008
  • 406pp
  • Sales Rank: 86,920

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    • Pub. Date: September 2008
    • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
    • Format: Paperback, 406pp
    • Sales Rank: 86,920

    Synopsis

    One of the greatest frustrations in most software projects is managing changes to information. This guide, written by members of the Subversion open source development team, introduces the powerful new versioning tool designed to be the successor to the Concurrent Version System or CVS.

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    Ben Collins-Sussman has been a sysadmin and programmer for ten years, and is one of the original designers and authors of Subversion. He currently works for CollabNet as a Subversion developer and community leader. When away from his computer, he moonlights as a musical theater composer at theaters around the city of Chicago. He lives with his lovely wife, three cats, and a house full of computer and music gizmos.

    Brian W. Fitzpatrick is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and currently works for CollabNet. He has been involved with Subversion in one way or another since its inception in early 2000. Originally from New Orleans, Brain moved to Chicago to attend Loyola University where he received a degree in Latin and Greek.

    C. Michael Pilato (Mike) is a core Subversion developer, and a leader in the Subversion community. He is currently employed by CollabNet, where he spends his days (and many nights) improving Subversion and other tools with which it integrates. A husband and father, this North Carolina native also enjoys composing and performing music, freelance graphic design work, hiking, and spending quality time with his family. Mike has a degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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    July 20, 2004: So what is wrong with CVS? It is the most common open source version control package. Very stable and mature. But, as the authors of this book point out, heavy users soon run into its limitations. Most notably, CVS has no concept of directory versioning. This means that copying and renaming files isn't handled at all, let alone these operations on directories. Plus, if you want to commit a set of files in CVS, some might fail and others might succeed. Not atomic. Undesirable. So the authors (and other developers) put together a proposed open source successor, Subversion. (Cool name!) It fixes the above deficiencies, and others. One nice extra feature is that the actual data access is abstracted in such a way that an Apache web server can also serve the Subversion data. Clever way to key off the power and stability of Apache. You may find it worthwhile to check it out.