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thank you for the article! I’ve used CVS for 2 years, but I’ve got clear understanding of branches and merging only now
Great Tanya, I’m glad you found it useful!
Kalid, very good intro article. I wrote “Get up and running with TortoiseSVN and Subversion in 15 minutes” a while back which will be of interest to folks starting out with SubVersion. You can find at: http://blog.surfulater.com/2007/02/28/get-up-and-running-with-tortoisesvn-and-subversion-in-15-minutes/
Hi Neville, thanks for dropping by. This article was about the high level concepts, so it’s nice to learn how to set up the nitty-gritty 
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Found this article while hunting for a useable distinction between Document Version and Document Revision. Any takers out there?
Hi Paul, unfortunately the words “version” and “revision” seem to be used interchangibly in the sources I’ve found. It might depend on the particular version/revision control tool you are using :).
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Great post! Using straight to the point explanations, attractive visual aids, and command-line examples really helped make the fundamentals easy to understand!
Great work!
Thanks Dan! I try to use as many techniques as I can (diagrams, text, etc.) since people learn differently. Glad it worked for you!
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