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<span class="quote">“<span class="quote">It is important not to let the perfect become the
enemy of the good, even when you can agree on what perfect is.
Doubly so when you can't. As unpleasant as it is to be trapped by
past mistakes, you can't make any progress by being afraid of your
own shadow during design.</span>”</span>
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<a id="idp1838688" class="indexterm"></a>In the world of open source software, the Concurrent
Versions System (CVS) was the tool of choice for version control
for many years. And rightly so. CVS was open source software
itself, and its nonrestrictive modus operandi and support for
networked operation allowed dozens of geographically dispersed
programmers to share their work. It fit the collaborative nature
of the open source world very well. CVS and its semi-chaotic
development model have since become cornerstones of open source
culture.</p>
<p>But CVS was not without its flaws, and simply fixing those
flaws promised to be an enormous effort. Enter Subversion.
Subversion was designed to be a successor to CVS, and its
originators set out to win the hearts of CVS users in two
ways—by creating an open source system with a design
(and <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">look and feel</span>”</span>) similar to CVS, and by
attempting to avoid most of CVS's noticeable flaws. While the
result wasn't—and isn't—the next great evolution in
version control design, Subversion <span class="emphasis"><em>is</em></span> very
powerful, very usable, and very flexible.</p>
<p>This book is written to document the 1.8 series of the
Apache™ Subversion®<sup>[<a id="idp6866480" href="#ftn.idp6866480" class="footnote">1</a>]</sup> version control system. We have made
every attempt to be thorough in our coverage. However, Subversion
has a thriving and energetic development community, so already a
number of features and improvements are planned for future
versions that may change some of the commands and specific notes
in this book.</p>
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<p><sup>[<a id="ftn.idp6866480" href="#idp6866480" class="para">1</a>] </sup>We'll refer to it
simply as <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">Subversion</span>”</span> throughout this book. You'll
thank us when you realize just how much space that
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