# Subversion Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Version Control Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-software) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 64 ## About Subversion Subversion is an open source version control system. Founded in 2000 by CollabNet, Inc., the Subversion project and software have seen incredible success over the past decade. Subversion has enjoyed and continues to enjoy widespread adoption in both the open source arena and the corporate world. ## Subversion Reviews ### 1. A good application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Subversion?** Good Features, Best tool. The application is designed keeping in mind the requirements of corporates. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** It should be more user friendly. Solves the purpose in silky way. **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** Please check on the features You will like it. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementing the needs as per the cleint requirements. ### 2. Great version control system for projects that don't involve too many developers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Subversion?** Subversion is a bit confusing to learn at the beginning but it is simpler than Git. There are great integrations for it such as TortoiseSVN which can help with getting files committed and updated in a remote repository. It is great for simple projects where you want to track the history of your changes. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** It is no longer supported by open-source platforms such as google code. Branching isn't as sophisticated as git's and there is no concept of the pull request in subversion which is widely used in the industry today. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use subversion mainly for internal small projects that don't require a whole lot of collaboration across different teams. It is great for tracking the early development of a proof of concept. ### 3. Very good platform 10 years ago. But dated and there are more progressive tools available. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle W. | Full Stack Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Subversion?** This a great tool and is great for version control and I enjoyed it many years ago. However, there are more modern progressive solutions available today including Git. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** The solution is out-dated. If you are searching for a version control tool, consider a solution centered around Git. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Again, an out-dated solution. ### 4. Brilliant but outdated product from Apache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Subversion?** One of few tools used to save codebase or data **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Lower community support for any common issues to resolve **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving our codebase ### 5. Great for performing QA as a team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Subversion?** It is helpful being able to track changes along with summaries, that will be included in the historical log. We deal with a lot of policies, so being able to back up why a change was made, with a ticket tracking number, is helpful if/when our client asks for it. Also being able to backtrack edits in an emergency, gives my team confidence when using this tool. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** It can be quite finicky when accepting your changes and seeing that a document is now good, or with issues. You may need to exit and re-enter to ensure you see the green check mark, or the red mark indicating their was an issue. It can sometimes stay in yellow/pending after you accept your updates **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** I would definitely recommend this product for anyone performing group QAs of living documents, especially is tracking history is important/useful to you! **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detailed and live QA among a large team. ### 6. A good experience but could be improved! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abinash A. | General Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Subversion?** It's easy to use. Check in and check out of code is really very easy. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Nothing as such, everything worked fine when i used it with IntelliJ. **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** You should try it. It's integration with Intellij makes it easy to use **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collaborating on various projects repositories in my company. ### 7. Subversion helped me a lot in collaborative development in my projects. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Subversion?** Subversion is very easy and even beginners can easily learn things. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Till now I never had an issue with subversion. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** During the development version control and collaborative development is an headache. In my experience subversion always had a solution for my issues. ### 8. One of the Best Versioning Tool in Market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Subversion?** 1. This tool gives you power to work collaboratively. And this collaboration will happen with out impacting anyone's work. 2. It points out changes between existing code and uploaded code then and there. 3. Shows difference while merging code in trunk. 4. Find out old code by just providing the version number Subversion is a free/open source version control system (VCS). That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Well it is Hard to say what you can dislike in this tool unless you use it. But if your code is placed inside zip or if it is a meta data, then this tool can't give exact changes between old code and new code. **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** If your end products supports text editor then go for it. It will become your best friend while checking in your code on cloud. Subversion is a free/open source version control system (VCS). That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to use , reliable and smart. It can take care of your Job as a Hammer when the job become nails! For parallel Development, Collaboration this tool make code comparison easy. ### 9. SVN review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Subversion?** I like the checkin and checkout that is specifically color coded. The color coding on your local machine itself is sufficient to tell that there are pending changes yet to be checked in or the version is in sync with the server. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Sometimes, the version does not get updated with the latest one. It will make you delete the entire folder and get the latest version from sever again. **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** It is very easy to use. I like the color coding that it gives when the version is checked out or is sync with the server. It is easy to manage the version control using SVN. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control management ### 10. Easy Robust and Manageable Config Mgmt Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** abhishek k. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Subversion?** it tracks and provide end to end visibilty of each commit by developer.Also the hooks provide easy way for notification to be sent to IT leads whenever any change is being commit , also the delta changes can be tracked very easily. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Cleanup the locked directory takes lot more time than it should take. We need to forcefully commit executable files/binary files using in the project **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** it tracks and provide end to end visibilty of each commit by developer.Also the hooks provide easy way for notification to be sent to IT leads whenever any change is being commit , also the delta changes can be tracked very easily. It is easy to learn for new members within the team and provide end to end usage in terms of development cycle **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is used for source code management , version control and scripts repository ## Subversion Discussions - [What is Subversion used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/subversion-what-is-subversion-used-for) - [Why you should switch from Subversion to Git?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git) - [What is meant by SVN?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-meant-by-svn) - [Is Subversion still used?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-subversion-still-used) - [What is subversion used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-subversion-used-for) - [View Subversion pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/subversion/reviews/subversion-review-185799?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-10+14%3A42%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=26d16762-c01e-4086-b9e6-8adc64158bd9&secure%5Btoken%5D=e00cc19e07fab99d1ae51456f0f24ad42d3ecb6962fb860b97b7003c012f07e6&format=llm_user) ## Top Subversion Alternatives - [Git](https://www.g2.com/products/git/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (522 reviews) - [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (192 reviews) - [P4](https://www.g2.com/products/p4/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (93 reviews)