[plug] PLUG Talk tonight -- Intro to Subversion

[Alastair Irvine]

Hi, folks.  I'm giving a talk tonight at Spacecubed: 45 St Georges
Terrace, Perth.

Here is the blurb:
Alastair Irvine believes in the right tool for the job.  At this PLUG
talk, he will be giving an introduction to Subversion including a few
demos, some of which will be interactive.  Feel free to bring your
laptop.

Subversion is a more primitive revision control system than the
distributed revision control systems in common use today, e.g. Git and
Mercurial.  Therefore it has several problems that they don't suffer
from.  However, these problems only usually occur when doing
collaborative development.

I believe there is a place for just about every tool, and in a more
simplistic situation, Subversion can be quicker to get started with.
It's certainly easier to learn.  When your revision control needs are
straightforward, it's OK to start with this  and if you need to migrate
to Git later there are some tools that can help.

This talk will cover the following:
  + repository setup
  + what is a working copy?
  + backups
  + merging