Subversion principles

- Repository   Lies on the Subversion server. On the SAM-repository are the different revisions.
- Working directory   Your local directory, where you edit the documents, is called working copy. Subversion 'knows', to which 'path in which repository' the working directory belongs.
- Merging   You can work with others on the same file at the same time. Then changes from the repository are merged with your local changes, when you update a particular file. If the changes of the others do not correspond to your local changes, your local file has got both changes now. Subversion detects a conflict and puts conflict markers into your file. Both changes are placed one below the other in your local file, and you have to solve the conflict manually.

 
 
 
 
 

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