What is Subversion?

From the free book about Subversion:

"Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files and directories over time. A tree of files is placed into a central repository. The repository is much like an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every change ever made to your files and directories. 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”."

The Punchscan project is divided into several different software components depending on their function. Subversion Repositories for the development versions are available at the following locations:

• http://www.punchscan.org/repositories/database/
• http://www.punchscan.org/repositories/documents/
• http://www.punchscan.org/repositories/electionsite/
• http://www.punchscan.org/repositories/punchscan/

Directions for SVN

Everyone should be able to browse the current revision of the repositories using the links above, to download them to your hard drive you can use one of the following methods.

Windows Users

Windows users may use TortoiseSVN to check out a working copy of the repository, available here.

Command Line Tools (Linux, MacOSX, and other Users)

If you install the command line tools for Subversion, you can checkout a working copy of a repository with the following command:

svn checkout http://www.punchscan.org/repositories/repositoryname destinationdirectory

The command line tools are available here.