Description:

Subversion is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more
users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and
directories while keeping a history of all changes. Subversion only stores the
differences between versions, instead of every complete file. Subversion also
keeps a log of who, when, and why changes occured.

As such it basically does the same thing CVS does (Concurrent Versioning
System) but has major enhancements compared to CVS and fixes a lot of the
annoyances that CVS users face.

This package contains the client, if you're looking for the server end
of things you want subversion-repos. You'll want to install
libsvn_ra_dav1_0 or libsvn_ra_local1_0 or libsvn_ra_svn1_0
to access HTTP/DAV or local or svnserve respositories, respectively.

You can build subversion with some conditional build swithes;

(ie. use with rpm --rebuild):
--with debug Compile with debugging code (disabled)
--with swig Enable the swig bindings (enabled)
--with[out] test Enable the "make check" tests (enabled)

NOTE: Make sure to read:
/usr/share/doc/subversion-repos-1.1.4/repos_upgrade_HOWTO