Version Control with Subversion

The book itself works great as a beginning guide to using Subversion, but is just a printed version of the free online book served from the Subversion website. If you are fine with online documentation, then I'd recommend just downloading the full PDF.

Having a handy reference that doesn't need light all the time (and won't hurt my eyes neither) is great. Even though the online version is really good and easy to read, I bought the book because sometimes I just need to check a little tip or syntaxis and didn't bookmark the online reference.

Subversion, a successor to CVS is a widly used, novel approach to versioning of filesystems. Novelties to CVS are that versioning of the whole filesystem instead of single file, which made it possilble to have directories under version control, efficient storage of versioning meta-data, making it possible to have binary files under version control.