


Parsable output, including XML log output.Costs proportional to change size, not to data size.Client/server protocol sends diffs in both directions.Natively client–server, layered library design.Branching is a cheap operation, independent of file size (though Subversion itself does not distinguish between a branch and a directory).There is also an independent server process called svnserve that uses a custom protocol over TCP/IP. Apache HTTP Server as network server, WebDAV/ Delta-V for protocol.Native support for binary files, with space-efficient binary-diff storage.Users can move and/or copy entire directory-trees very quickly, while retaining full revision history. The system maintains versioning for directories, renames, and file metadata (but not for timestamps).Renamed/copied/moved/removed files retain full revision history.Commits as true atomic operations (interrupted commit operations in CVS would cause repository inconsistency or corruption).Release dates are extracted from Apache Subversion's CHANGES file, which records all release history. Release Candidate for next fully supported, LTS Latest preview version of a future release: 1.14 Older version, yet still maintained: 1.10 It became a top-level Apache project on February 17, 2010. In November 2009, Subversion was accepted into Apache Incubator: this marked the beginning of the process to become a standard top-level Apache project.

By 2001, Subversion had advanced sufficiently to host its own source code, and in February 2004, version 1.0 was released. in 2000, and is now a top-level Apache project being built and used by a global community of contributors.ĬollabNet founded the Subversion project in 2000 as an effort to write an open-source version-control system which operated much like CVS but which fixed the bugs and supplied some features missing in CVS. CodePlex was previously a common host for Subversion repositories. The open source community has used Subversion widely: for example, in projects such as Apache Software Foundation, Free Pascal, FreeBSD, SourceForge, and from 2006 to 2019, GCC. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as open source under the Apache License.
