* Gets right to what you need to know; Covers advanced topics not documented in other books.
* Eases transition from other Version Control systems.
* Explains how to integrate Subversion with common development tools; Shows you how to embed Subversion in your own programs.
* Rooney is one of the Subversion developers.
Practical Subversion is a guide to the Subversion (source control management system) version control system. It provides a crash course in how to use Subversion, intended to get the reader up and running as quickly as possible. Beyond the quick-start introduction, the book includes advanced topics such as repository administration, Apache integration, third party tools, migrating revision history from other version control systems, and even accessing the Subversion API's from other programs. This book is based on 1.0 release—which has been in development for about 2 years.
Written for the programmer with some experience with an existing version control system (like CVS or Perforce), Practical Subversion explains and demonstrates how to apply that experience in the Subversion environment, which is more simple and better than CVS.
Garrett Rooney
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From the reviews of the second edition:
"Subversion is one of the hottest tools to appear recently in configuration management … . The book is well organized and easy to consume, particularly for the software practitioner with no prior Subversion knowledge. … There are definite bright spots in this book, particularly for the Subversion novice, who probably should keep a copy close at hand as an excellent reference. The book has also made me look forward to new developments that address the limitations in Subversion itself … ." (Marc S. Gibian, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2008)