Apache Subversion

Apache Subversion is a versioning and revision control system (VCS) developed and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. With Apache Subversion software developers can manage, document and organize changes to files and directories of software projects. With Subversion teams of developers can maintain the current and historical versions of a project source code with ease.

• Most CVS features.
• Directories are versioned.
• Copying, deleting, and renaming are versioned.
• Free-form versioned metadata ("properties").
• Atomic commits.
• Branching and tagging are cheap (constant time) operations.
• Merge tracking.
• File locking.
• Symbolic links can be versioned.
• Executable flag is preserved.
• Apache network server option, with WebDAV/DeltaV protocol.
• Standalone server option (svnserve).
• Parseable output.
• Localized messages.
• Interactive conflict resolution.
• Repository read-only mirroring.
• Write-through proxy over WebDAV.
• Natively client/server, layered library design with clean APIs.
• Binary files handled efficiently.
• Costs are proportional to change size, not data size.
• Bindings to programming languages.
• Changelists.

Apache Subversion is a free and open source version control system released under the Apache License.