Subversion

The information on this page is outdated and may not be accurate anymore, since I have switched to using git.

Using a specific SSH key to do a checkout:

SVN_SSH="ssh -i path/to/key_name" svn co svn+ssh://user@svn.example.com/desired/path

Subversion (or svn) is a version control system similar to CVS but touting several improvements:

• versioning support for directories, files and meta-data
• history tracking across moves, copies and renames
• truly atomic commits
• cheap branching and merging operations
• efficient network usage
• offline diff and revert
• efficient handling of binary files

It has, however, become somewhat of an anachronism since, oh, 2009 or so.

Guides:

• Subversion for CVS Users
• Version Control With Subversion

Front-Ends:

• CVSTrac now has generic SCM support, which may solve most of my problems.
• Insurrection - a very nice DHTML-based front-end.
• Trac - a CVSTrac-like front-end for Subversion, using Python and a lot of outdated dependencies.
• TortoiseSVN - a Windows client similar to TortoiseCVS