Subversion’s Components
Subversion, once installed, has a number of different pieces. The following is a quick overview of what you get. Don’t be alarmed if the brief descriptions leave you scratching your head—plenty more pages in this book are devoted to alleviating that confusion.
- svn
The command-line client program
- svnversion
A program for reporting the state (in terms of revisions of the items present) of a working copy
- svnlook
A tool for directly inspecting a Subversion repository
- svnadmin
A tool for creating, tweaking, or repairing a Subversion repository
- mod_dav_svn
A plug-in module for the Apache HTTP Server, used to make your repository available to others over a network
- svnserve
A custom standalone server program, runnable as a daemon process or invokable by SSH; another way to make your repository available to others over a network.
- svndumpfilter
A program for filtering Subversion repository dump streams
- svnsync
A program for incrementally mirroring one repository to another over a network