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Users consistently praise the ease of use and robust functionality of this version control system, highlighting its effectiveness in managing collaborative projects. Many appreciate its ability to track changes and maintain a clear history, making it suitable for teams of varying skill levels. However, some users note that it can be difficult to navigate and may struggle with larger, distributed teams.
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Mansoor A.
MA
Software Engineer
Outsourcing/Offshoring
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Devloper Usability"
What do you like best about Subversion?

more than 10 years we are using it. it working fine. while developing a team project its more usefully to handle the code on the server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

Continue integration is the most needed. While committing the code we face more issues on the different part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luca C.
LC
Online Platform & Integrations DBA Senior Supervisor
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Versioning is the way! "
What do you like best about Subversion?

In our company we using Subversion everyday.

This software allows each department to work independently on different projects with different resources by tracking changes of each. It is definitely a great help to have an optimal teamwork without losing the changes of anyone.

It is easy to use and is very quick to update \ download modified projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

The initial configuration can be difficult since it is based on Apache servers and requires a minimum of know-how.

Apart from that no objection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maurizio M.
MM
IT Manager, Database Department
Gambling & Casinos
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy and powerful"
What do you like best about Subversion?

I like the windows integration, the history view and so on, but i love the ease of use of this software. We use Tortoise svn as the client for Subversion, and we've more or less 30 between developers, dba and the graphic team. It's fast and powerful. Excellent branch/tagging features (really cool as developers), useful of course the repo-browser. It's also cool the capability to exclude some file/directory from repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

It should be integrated with visual studio!! for that we use Team Foundation Server, integrated in the Visual Studio IDE...Sometimes you need to do a cleanup to make everything it's ok but...it's ok, no worryes about that.Sometimes you have to do more than once update/commit/cleanup because files are somehow locked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
GC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I used svn for code & documnet version management"
What do you like best about Subversion?

SVN can handle large bin file easily.

Its help to keep track changes by other team member.

Its very simple to uses.

Its open source. Free to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

Its not provide staging environment for per user.

Its not distributed like git or mercurial.

Its not provide hosting environment like github.

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Flavio S.
FS
Cyber Security
Government Administration
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
" CVS successor"
What do you like best about Subversion?

Subversion is a development tool for managing collaborative work of several people simultaneously on the same project. How centralized server you can use the Apache Web server via the WebDAV / DeltaV protocol, or an independent server which uses a custom protocol based on TCP / IP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

There are many other software that have this feature. the competition is high, many may prefer the software "git" linux based kernel. the initial configuration requires experience in the command line level

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Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
UE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Centralized Revision Control"
What do you like best about Subversion?

Subversion is a centralized revision control system that allows for fairly easy management of source code. Renamed/moved files maintain their revision history, which is nice. SVN also supports branching, which is very useful if you or a group of people are working on the same file(s) concurrently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

SVN lacks some of the features I've come to expect after using Git, such as staging part of a file and stashing local changes. It also seems to be slower than Git, although this probably varies from one repository to another. In general, I prefer distributed revision control systems over centralized ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Solid and Proven Source Control System"
What do you like best about Subversion?

Apache Subversion (i.e. SVN) is a very solid source control system that has been proven to be reliable and useful for years. It was launched in 2000 and is still being maintained to this day. It is an open-source piece of software so there is a lot of community support. Since it is widely used, there is a lot of support online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

There really isn't much to dislike about SVN. I guess the only thing I "dislike" is that, at least in my use, has been overtaken by git, which is a competing source control system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research
UR
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Source Code Control for All"
What do you like best about Subversion?

Subversion is a well documented source code control software. The documentation makes it clear and easy to checkout, merge, create and merge branches, and so forth. They have even updated how branches are handled so you do not have to keep track of revision numbers. Having been forced into using subversion with no previous background it was very easy to understand, and very well documented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

Upon one of the more recent updates they changed the structure of how the subversion directories are preserved, which I liked, but it required performing an svn upgrade on all of my checked out directories. In my situation this took hours... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
GF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Svn experience. Have used multiple version control softwares"
What do you like best about Subversion?

It is very easy to use. I like that there are pligins available for Eclipse which makes it so much easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

I don't remember having that many issues. But when resolving conflict with code changes, it is not easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace
GA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Use for tracking C code changes across multiple complex interrelated product components"
What do you like best about Subversion?

relative ease of tracking code history and product integration changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Subversion?

- needs a "find where for where used" for externals/links within a single repo

-The continual removal of various Extern features

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