Version Control with Subversion - Electrical and Computer ...

On one end is a Subversion repository that holds all of your versioned data. On the other end is your
Subversion client program, which manages local reflections of portions of that versioned data (called
“working copies”). Between these extremes are multiple routes through various Repository Access (RA)
layers. Some of these routes go across computer networks and through network servers which then access
the repository. Others bypass the network altogether and access the repository directly.
Installing Subversion
Introduction
Subversion is built on a portability layer called APR—the Apache Portable Runtime library. The APR
library provides all the interfaces that Subversion needs to function on different operating systems: disk
access, network access, memory management, and so on. While Subversion is able to use Apache as one
of its network server programs, its dependence on APR does not mean that Apache is a required com-
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