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Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is,
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Subversion manages files and directories over time. A tree of files
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is placed into a central repository. The repository is much like an
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ordinary file server, except that it remembers every change ever made
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to your files and directories. This allows you to recover older versions
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of your data, or examine the history of how your data changed.
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In this regard, many people think of a version control system as a
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sort of time machine.
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Note that you need to install the following subpackages to gain
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the appropriate functionality:
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2005-10-02 05:02:05 -04:00
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-perl Perl bindings to Subversion
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-python Python bindings to Subversion
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-ruby Ruby bindings to Subversion
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-ap2 Apache httpd 2 modules for Subversion
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Flavors:
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gnome_keyring: Compile with support for gnome-keyring
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2009-08-25 06:26:20 -04:00
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Also note that plaintext-password caching is disabled by default
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by setting "store-plaintext-passwords" to "no" in ${SYSCONFDIR}/subversion/servers.
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This is a different default behaviour to a standard subversion install,
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which would ask the user before storing passwords in plaintext.
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