cpugeek Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I was wondering what the deal is with SVN.like what is it, what does it do, and how do you set it up.any and all help is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boen_robot Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Well... wiki it for starters.Basically, it's a versioning system. Such system allows you to store the differences between variations of one or more files, instead of storing the full files themselves. This allows you to make code changes, and if something goes wrong, to go back to whatever worked. All without keeping all versions on your HDD.In addition, such systems allow more than one person to make changes to one file. Once they both submit their changes, the system attempts to merge both submissions into a single file, asking for user approval if the conflict can't be resolved.There are more features too of course, but those are pretty much the top big reasons why would you want to use any versioning system. CVS is an example of another versioning system, but it's older than SVN, and in fact, SVN was created to adress some its problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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