Frequently Asked Questions

Subversion is an open source version control system designed as successor to the once popular CVS. It is widely accepted by both the open source community as practically the de facto standard in version control systems. It is also used broadly in the corporate context.

Subversion offers a variety of features, including:

• directories, renames, and file meta-data are versioned
• atomic commits
• branching and tagging
• versioning of symbolic links
• space efficient binary diffing
• client availability on a multitude of platforms

For more information about Subversion, please see: https://subversion.apache.org.