What is SVN?
SVN is short for subversion, which is a type of version control system.
It is a software versioning and revision control system distributed under an open source license. Subversion was created by CollabNet Inc. in 2000, but now it is developed as a project of the Apache Software Foundation, and as such is part of a rich community of developers and users.
Main goals:
- Allow developers to work simultaneously.
- Do not overwrite each other’s changes.
- Maintain history of every version of everything.
In simple terms, a SVN repository (or Subversion repository) is a collection of files and directories, bundled together in a special database that also records a complete history of all the changes that have ever been made to these files.
A SVN changeset consists of a description of all the additions, modifications and deletions to files within the project required to go from one revision to the next, along with a human-friendly text description that reports the nature of the changes. The collection of all changesets in a project is what makes up a SVN repository.
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