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'''KDE Architecture - Version Control System (VCS) Frontend'''

== SVN Frontend kdesvn ==

== What is SVN? ==

Subversion (SVN) is the version control system (VCS) which many open source projects -
including KDE - are using. It stores all sources codes in a central place,
called the ''repository''. From the repository, developers can check out a
current version of the project or snapshots of it at arbitrary points of time.
In contrast to some other revision control systems, it is not necessary to
''lock'' files one wants to work on. So development can be highly
parallelized.

Whenever a developer has finished a task, he ''commits'' his code
(accompanied by a log message). SVN takes the job to merge the changes made
by several developers. It can of course happen that developers work on the
same piece of code, resulting in a conflicting set of changes (in practice
this occurs seldom, and is often a sign of a lack of communication). In this
case SVN rejects a commit; only after all conflicts are resolved, a file can
be commited.

So far, this has been a description of the basic features of SVN one
usually has to cope with. But SVN can provide a lot more: One can
maintain several branches of a project (e.g. KDE 3.4 and KDE 3.5 are
branches in the <tt>branches</tt> directory), merge changes from one branch to
another, ask for differences between revisions, the revision history of
files etc.

== What is kdesvn? ==

kdesvn intends to provide a friendly, graphical interface to SVN and is
technically a frontend for the command line client 'svn'. It gives the user an
easy to understand overview of status of his working directory (also called
the ''sandbox''), giving information about which files have been modified
since the last update, which have been added or removed. Furthermore, it
provides access to the following features:

*Checking out a module from a repository.
*Importing into the repository.
*Updating a working directory or single files.
*Common operations like add, remove and commit.
*Diff against the repository and between different revisions.
*Annotated view of a file.
*View of the log messages in tree and list form.
*Resolving of conflicts in a file

For detailed information on kdesvn, see the [http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=26589 official kdesvn homepage.]
For detailed information about SVN, read
the free [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ Subversion book].

== Historical Tools ==

Before Subversion the KDE project used the revision control system CVS. CVS works similar to SVN, but SVN is sometimes called "The better CVS". There is a frontend for CVS called [http://cervisia.kde.org Cervisia].

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Dhaumann: port of http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/tools-cervisia.html AND CVS+Cervisia -> SVN+kdesvn. Meintion CVS, too as historical tools