Speaking of Subversion

[Paul Lussier]

klussier at comcast.net writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a couple of things related to Subversion: 

I would:

 a) head over to subversion.tigris.org and poke around
 b) read the O'Reilly book
    - online at svnbook.red-bean.com
    - free with subversion
    - with source you can even print a dead tree copy
 c) join the svn-users mailing list
 d) poke into #svn on freenode.
 
> The first is an integrated build system.

Subversion is a revision control system.  Make is a build system.
Don't confuse the two.  There are many different build systems, some
good, some not.  Some may work with svn, but afaik, there's nothing
"integrated with" svn.

> The second is a web-based front end like the CVSweb stuff. Is this
> built into SVN?

There are several.  Since svn uses apache as it's network transport,
you can "just browse" the repo if set up correctly.  There is also a
port of CVSWeb to svn, called ironically enough, SVNweb.  There are
others as well.

> I am sure that I will have many more questions.

See above. This is likely not the best place to ask :)

> This is my first experience with SVN, so I really have no idea what
> I'm doing (like this is different from other days? :-)

SVN is a lot like CVS, but infinitely better.  If you understand CVS,
SVN will not be difficult to grasp.
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Seeya,
Paul