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use Subversion to manage their data. While Subversion runs on a
number of different operating systems, its primary user
interface is command-line based. That command-line tool
(<span class="command"><strong>svn</strong></span>), and some auxiliary programs, are the
focus of this book.</p><p>For consistency, the examples in this book assume the reader
is using a Unix-like operating system and is relatively comfortable
with Unix and command-line interfaces. That said, the
<span class="command"><strong>svn</strong></span> program also runs on non-Unix platforms
like Microsoft Windows. With a few minor exceptions, such as
the use of backward slashes (<code class="literal">\</code>) instead of
forward slashes (<code class="literal">/</code>) for path separators, the
input to and output from this tool when run on Windows are
identical to its Unix counterpart.</p><p>Most readers are probably programmers or system
administrators who need to track changes to source code. This
is the most common use for Subversion, and therefore it is the
scenario underlying all of the book's examples. But Subversion
can be used to manage changes to any sort of
information—images, music, databases, documentation, and
so on. To Subversion, all data is just data.</p><p>While this book is written with the assumption that the
reader has never used a version control system, we've also tried
to make it easy for users of CVS (and other systems) to make a
painless leap into Subversion. Special sidebars may mention
other version control systems from time to time, and a special
appendix summarizes many of the differences between CVS and
Subversion.</p><p>Note also that the source code examples used throughout the
book are only examples. While they will compile with the proper
compiler incantations, they are intended to illustrate a
particular scenario, not necessarily serve as examples of good
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