Subversion® is an open-source version control system. Subversion® allows developers to share there projects on the repositories, where they are stored afterwards. Repository is much similar to a file server, except the fact, that it not only stores the copy of the file system, but its previous states and changing history. Subversion® access its repositories using network, so it provides a probability for a person to work over some shared files and watch for every possible changes made by other developers.
Subversion® home:
http://subversion.apache.org/
http://subversion.tigris.org/ - old home
Trunk, Branches and Tags
Trunk is a main (head) line of development. That's where you share your project and do initial commit. Branches are the additional lines of development. Used when branching for different versions from one initial is needed or when each developer has his own development line and plan. Tags are a kind of specific labels for a set of files each with its own revision number. Used to track the important events if project's life cycle.
Apache Subversion - provides an API for Subversion developers and package maintainers to build Subversion from source code
Binary packages - packages from volunteers built on top of Apache Subversion
- some of the available packages are here: http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html
- Example: Slik SVN
SVNKit
SVNKit is a pure Java toolkit - it implements all Subversion features and provides APIs to work with Subversion working copies, access and manipulate Subversion repositories - everything within your Java application.
Sources:
http://subversion.apache.org/
http://subversion.tigris.org/
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive
http://svnkit.com/index.html
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