Introduction to control version systems

Version control is the art of managing changes to information. It has long been a critical tool for programmers, who typically spend their time making small changes to software and then undoing or checking some of those changes the next day. Imagine a team of such developers working concurrently - and perhaps even simultaneously on the very same files! - and you can see why a good system is needed to manage the potential chaos.

• /1 What is TortoiseSVN

• /2 Basic concepts

• /3 The Repository

• /4 Daily Operations

• /5 Downloading Subversion for Windows/Linux

• /6 Experimenting with a real Subversion server