SunSpotWorld - Home of Project Sun SPOT. Vitamin Features » Subversion for Designers. If you attended Future of Web Apps this year in Miami, or even listened to the audio, it’s apparent that version control is a crucial part of building web apps.
As Cal Henderson put it, “If you listen to nothing else I say today, start using source control.” This might be obvious to developers, but many web designers still have not discovered the benefits of version control. Without version control, most web designers work in constant risk. Using SVN for Web Development. As our web applications grew and more and more developers started working on them, it became obvious that we needed some kind revision control system to manage our code.
As CVS is quite dated and Subversion (SVN) introduced some handy features (atomic transactions, Apache piggybacking, more convenient branching/tagging, tons of other improvements), we chose to go with SVN. The big question was: how to use it correctly? After coming up with some more or less weird ideas I think we finally found a decent solution to put a web application into source control. Keep in mind that this post is not about how to use SVN itself, it’s rather about the system architecture for using it in web development.