Vitaliy wrote:
> Tamas Rudnai wrote:
>> BTW: I use CVS and I do the same with local repository on external HD - 
>> but
>> I do not know why SVN is better or differrent? Also working with Perforce
>> but to be honest can't see the advantage over CVS either - would be nice 
>> to
>> see some opinion.
> 
> As you can tell, I'm relatively new to version control systems, I've only 
> used Subversion.

The big advantage Subversion has over CVS in my mind is that it uses 
atomic commits of groups of files.  That is, you check in a group of 
files as one commit operation, that can't be partially done, and there's 
a single database entry that covers all of those files.  CVS tracks 
changes per-file instead.

It is also reported to be faster, and work better with binary files, and 
supports encrypted network connections easily, and fully supports 
renaming files and directories.
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