An introduction to Subversion (University Students)
What: An introduction to Subversion
When: Thursday 6pm - 7pm Seminar room 1 Zepler (Building 59)
Who: The Invitation is open to all university of Southampton students (not just ECS)
Description
The Subversion eBook has this to say:
Subversion is a free/open source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed. In this regard, many people think of a version control system as a sort of “time machine”.
Put simply, Subversion or 'SVN' is a way of managing software projects, especially those with more than one contributor. You will doubtlessly come across SVN at many stages of your time at ECS and many of you will find it essential for group projects. Anyone that has experienced the pain involved in shuffling files around a group using USB keys, ZIP files and email will find this talk very helpful. ECS has a special SVN server (http://forge.ecs.soton.ac.uk) set up especially for students to organise project work. All the lab machines have the appropriate software installed on them.
The talk will last approximately an hour and there will be opportunities for questions. All the slides from the presentation will be made available on the internet for use as a reference.
For students who have some experience with SVN, the talk will still be beneficial as we will cover some more complicated scenarios such as resolving conflicts between users as well as common mistakes and software writing 'good practice'.
