Because I spend a lot of time by programming exercises with other students in a group, I thought after a year of study about how to improve the efficiency of the work. Because we can’t always sitting together in one place, we work most “remote” and that’s why we have a board based on PHPBB 3. It is very convenient, because we can place our source codes there and exchange ideas and ask if someone of us have a problem, we can describe those problem on board and discuss it. After the exercises steadily gained in complexity, we found unfortunately that the publication of several source codes of Java or C+ + classes, no longer so feasible as before.
That is why I wanted to try a system like subversion. My choice was SVN, because CVS compared to SVN is technically much better.
The installation and use of SVN is very well documented. There are many HowTo’s, as well as tutorials which explain how Subversion works. The most important of all this documentations is the book “Version Control with Subversion”. The book is available on the Internet for free and explains pretty much everything what you could need to know about setup and use of SVN.
If someone use Eclipse development environment, I can give you a tip about the SVN plug-in for Eclipse. The plug-in is called Subversion. This plug-in is much better then Subclipse and it is integrated in the Eclipse project. The only thing that you need to get from an external source is a connector for subversion. But those connectors are free and you can download them from the web page of the developer.