Certified Subversion Version Control Professional

Fundamental Concepts

• Version Control Basics
• Version Control the Subversion Way

Basic Usage

• Getting Data into Your Repository
• Creating a Working Copy
• Basic Work Cycle
• Examining History
• Sometimes You Just Need to Clean Up
• Dealing with Structural Conflicts

Advanced Topics

• Revision Specifiers
• Peg and Operative Revisions
• File Portability
• Ignoring Unversioned Items
• Keyword Substitution
• Sparse Directories
• Locking
• Externals Definitions
• Changelists
• Network Model

Branching and Merging

• What’s a Branch?
• Using Branches
• Basic Merging
• Advanced Merging
• Traversing Branches
• Tags
• Branch Maintenance
• Common Branching Patterns
• Vendor Branches
• To Branch or Not to Branch?

Repository Administration

• The Subversion Repository, Defined
• Strategies for Repository Deployment
• Creating and Configuring Your Repository
• Repository Maintenance
• Moving and Removing Repositories

Server Configuration

• Overview
• Choosing a Server Configuration
• svnserve, a Custom Server
• httpd, the Apache HTTP Server
• Path-Based Authorization
• High-level Logging
• Server Optimization
• Supporting Multiple Repository Access Methods

Customizing Your Subversion Experience

• Runtime Configuration Area
• Localization
• Using External Editors
• Using External Differencing and Merge Tools

Embedding Subversion

• Layered Library Design
• Using the APIs