Committing Acts of Subversion: The next generation of version control

Mistakes happen. Bad ideas happen. Have you ever felt that sinking feeling when you accidentally erase an entire directory of source code? Or have you ever realized that the oh-so-clever refactoring you applied yesterday is causing performance issues today? Wouldn't it be great if you could turn back time?

Version control is a critical component of software development. It is the magic time machine that lets you go back to a better time when directories weren't deleted and bad ideas didn't wreak havoc on your servers.

Subversion is a relatively new version control system that is meant to be a replacement for CVS. In this session, we'll walk though several common day-to-day (and a few of the more eccentric) Subversion tasks. You'll see how your project can benefit from storing your code in Subversion. As a bonus, we'll also explore tools that can be added to Subversion to make it an even greater pleasure to work with.

About Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a Principal Engineer, Java Champion, Alexa Champion, and the author of Spring AI in Action, Spring in Action, and Build Talking Apps. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 1 bird and 2 dogs.

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