Subversion 1.6 Official Guide - Version Control with Subversion [Paperback]

Ben Collins-Sussman (Author), Brian W. Fitzpatrick (Author), C. Michael Pilato (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2, 2009

This is the official guide and reference manual for Subversion 1.6 - the popular open source revision control technology.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Ben Collins-Sussman has been a sysadmin and programmer for many years, and is one of the original designers and authors of Subversion. He currently works for Google in the Open Source Programs Office.

Brian Fitzpatrick has been involved with Subversion in one way or another since its inception in early 2000. He is currently the Chicago Engineering Manager for Google.

C. Michael Pilato is a core Subversion developer, and a leader in the Subversion community. He is currently employed by CollabNet, where he spends his days improving Subversion and other tools with which it integrates.

Product Details

• Paperback: 468 pages
• Publisher: Fultus Corporation (October 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596821698
• ISBN-13: 978-1596821699
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,917,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps Not What It Seems, October 8, 2010

By 

C MICHAEL PILATO (Harrisburg, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Subversion 1.6 Official Guide - Version Control with Subversion (Paperback)

As one of the authors attributed to this work, I want to caution you that you might not be getting what you've paid for.

This book takes its content from the open-source document "Version Control With Subversion", which was written almost entirely by myself and the two co-authors attributed to this book (Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick). Our text is freely available at [svnbook dot red-bean dot com], and is licensed such that anyone who wants to do so may take our text and publish it. The folks who've produced this "Subversion 1.6 Official Guide" book have apparently done exactly this, taking the latest version of our text, changing its name from the original "Version Control With Subversion", and releasing it as a different work. This is all well within the legal bounds with respect to our content, so it's not that about which I'm concerned and cautioning you, the reader.

What bothers me is that this book claims to be the official guide for Subversion 1.6 while a) not actually being that, because the aforementioned open-source book is the official guide, and b) almost certainly not containing information related to any version of Subversion newer than 1.5. Why? Because myself and my co-authors haven't gotten around to updating the official book with that information, and neither has anyone else.

Now, in fairness, I've not read this book. What I can see of it via Amazon's "Click to Look Inside" feature confirms that it is, in fact, our source material that was used. It contains our Acknowledgements. It even contains our thinly populated index (we were just beginning to play with that feature of Docbook XML, the markup language in which our book is written). There's one change made that I can see in the "What's New in Subversion" section, a one-line description of Subversion 1.6 that anyone could have easily composed from Subversion 1.6's release announcement or notes.

It is possible, then, that the producers of this book have, in fact, updated the text to cover Subversion 1.6. But if you're going to spend the money to take that gamble, you might first consider reading the actual official text over at [svnbook dot red-bean dot com], which I'm slowly updating to cover Subversion 1.6 myself.