Chapter 1. Introduction

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Subcommander is a graphical user interface to the Subversion version control system.

The goal of Subcommander is to build an easy to use, high quality, crossplatform (Win32, Unix, MacOSX) Subversion gui client (subcommander) including a graphical text diff and merge tool (submerge).

subcommander

submerge

Subcommander is a classical stand alone application based on the api provided by the subversion libraries. It is no frontend to the subversion svn command line tool and it doesn't depend on a special IDE or operating system feature (ie. it is not a plugin for an IDE or an extension to the operating system).

Subversion is a version control system similar to CVS. You will find more information on Subversion on the Internet (see the section called “Subversion” for the web address).

This guide doesn't explain subversion itself and it assumes that your are already familiar with subversion and the terms it uses. If your are new to subversion you should read at least the first few chapters of the subversion book (see the section called “Subversion”). It explains the basics of version control and the concepts of subversion.