Subversion Reviews & Product Details

Good, basic version control, simple and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lacks many of the features of newer version control software such as Git and Mercurial. In particular, subversion's branching & merging isn't up to par with Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like the versioning and history SVN provides. I like the capabilities of the repo browser as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SVN is difficult to search in. i wish their was a way to search via search bar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subversion integrates really nicely with MadCap Flare, the authoring tool that I use to write product documentation. I can count on Subversion to keep track of all of my changes and am confident in versioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be difficult to go to it through tortoise to get everything checked in when there are issues doing thing via flare integration. Branching functionality is hard to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sub version gets the job done. It has great versioning control and document storage. The right click functionality from the desktop is a very handy feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sub version can be a little hard to navigate. There isn't a great searching feature unfortunately. The web based feature is also a little lacking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

makes it easy to know what went into a build

creating a branch is now a version-controlled operation, meaning you get to track who did it, when and why

"svn ls" can easily show you what branches exist and are active, which was always hard to keep track of Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there is no way to bring together all the various branched versions of a single source file, if (for example) you're trying to remember which branch a particular change was made on.

it's also rather heavyweight if you only wanted to branch one single file for some unofficial or private purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to set up and use. It's doesn't have as high a learning curve like Git does. It works well for small local teams.

It also works well with all OS's, build tools (Jenkins, Maven etc) and has been very reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn't work as well for a big distributed team such as Git. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For me personally I like the fact that the full revision history is maintained for files that have been changed in any way. Working on various projects for various years, it's very beneficial to know who has made what change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are certain features like, SVN update to head vs synchronize with repository which sound almost the same. Maybe different wordings could help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tracking and reverting changes is easy. For most use cases, it is adequate and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Does not operate without access to a centralized repository, which might be a problem if you are without internet access. Working copies can get pretty big if you have several branches with a lot of changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subversion is remarkably easy to install, configure, and even self-host. The directory structure is scalable and the ability to check out individual directories of a project tree makes it very easy to separate out modular components of a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The centralized nature of Subversion, however, makes collaborating on features remarkably difficult. The branching feature of Subversion also makes otherwise lightweight repositories very bulky as the project grows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Snapshots of where you are with code is awesome, as well as intentional tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have much experience yet with merging code, especially when I and a coworker have modified the same file. Still a pain to figure that out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.