Subversion Reviews & Product Details

Ease of getting started, and with multiple available GUI IDE's it works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subversion can be a bit confusing on setting up multiple project repositories until you get the hang of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple as that. One of the best features around the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of compatibility it had some issues with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Checkin/out is very simple; Handy backup of repository files; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not able to delete revision using SUPER MODE :-), and No Cache mode to undo code, like CTRL+Z, when you accidentally overwrite the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. It works well for branching, feature branches, release mgmt. Has a good way to look at differences and changes in a single screen (use UI client). It's pretty stable too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Does not have inbuilt Continuous integration flow and you have to assume all the developers will follow the flow process. Does not have lot of plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Subversion for certain projects where I want a centralized version control system. It may not be quite as flexible as others, but it is a very mature solution that meets that particular need. Subversion's treating a checked out repository as a "working copy", rather than a repository in and of itself, provides clarity (at the expense of flexibility). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike its relative inflexibility on projects where another, less centralized solution (such as Git), may be more appropriate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and lesser complexity than other giants like GIT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

a little more flexibility to user should be provided in order to be more productive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tracks a whole commit which makes it easier for a developer to keep track/check the history.

Overall revision number makes build versioning and regression testing much easier:

Prevents accidental committing of conflicted files.

Offline diffs and availability of customs diff's.

supports versioning of binary files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

working copies take up twice as much space.

recursive greps of source directories now turn up lots of bogus hits in ".svn" subdirectories

Need to forcefully commit executable files/binary files.

SVN will now not automatically cope once you've removed the conflict markers from a file. It will have marked the file as "conflicted" when it first displayed the C status, and when you've sorted it out you have to manually tell it "resolved".

SVN does not allow rollback of commit. Authors suggest copy good repository state to the end of trunk to overwrite bad commit. However bad commit itself will remain in repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very robust, easy to use from the file explorer or an IDE. Good editor for mitigating merge conflicts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes if you don't use svn convention you may get issues like merge conflicts and temp files conflicts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subversion is the best version control system because it comes with command line options as well as GUI interface aka client and various plugins are available. One of the one client I use with Subversion is TortoiseSVN. All tasks can be accomplished with a single click, be it creating a branch, updating source tree, commit, revert or tag a revision. Also creating a patch, viewing history, or updating credentials after a password change is fairly straight forward. I have been using Subversion since more than 6 years and I like the usability. Even for new users it is pretty easy to use. I have used multiple versions and they are improving with every new release, which the part I like about Subversion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subversion can be challenging to use at times for ex when merging the conflicts in the files or deleting/renaming directories. I ran into issues where Subversion didn't commit deleted/renamed folders properly and if you are not careful on rename, none of the history will be carried forward if you don't use Subversion rename feature or drag/drop features if moving between directories. I end up resolving conflicts manually many time instead of using diff editor which can be very time consuming when tight deadlines are approaching or when you are merging the code from branch to another branch. Also, sometimes lock is obtained on source tree when you are trying to perform multiple operations at once and then you need to go clean up the working copy status. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use subversion because someone else in my organization was already running a server, and let me add some repositories to it. The standard free book on their website has a great introductory chapter or two that is all you will need from a user perspective. I don't really need any fancier features, just plain text diffs. If you're on Windows, get Tortoise-SVN for a client, also a freebie. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike having to set up and run a service, but someone else in my organization manages it anyways. Although, that means we have to go through that person to make any changes. It would also be nice if it could do diffs on binary files, but it is very good at what it was meant to do, which is source code version management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.