Apache Subversion

SVN is what CVS should have been - it has pretty much everything CVS has, except it's easier - no 'login' commands and CVSROOT environment variables and huge long authentication details and so on, just a simple URL.

The only problem I have with it is that when you mess up your WC SVN makes it pretty hard to fix up, but then again I don't know whether CVS or darcs or whatever does it any better.

I think a good feature that svn need is support to shared files (external files) like it does with folders.

Just a quick note that WANdisco now have registration free SVN Bianries and Support:

http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/os/downloads


http://www.wandisco.com/products/svn/support.php

i think SVN is a bit better

Really, really old. Switch to Bazaar!

I don't see what I get out of SVN that CVS is missing. Changesets? big deal!

No built-in branch tracking ala p4's integrate. (Hidden away in the svnmerge add-on.)

Uses less-featureful diff (no -p, -b, -c, -i), and less-reliable diff3 (has given me bad merges).

Can't set default diff arguments ala CVS in a config file without writing a shell script.

Feels slower than CVS.

Can't get all the info for a changeset with one command. (files changed, log, diff)

Still too fragile, I've experienced both working copy corruption and repo corruption, even in recent versions.