SVK::Help::Intro 1.08

SVK::Help::Intro is a introduction to svk.

svk is an open source distributed version control system which is designed to interoperate with Subversion. Like other version control systems, it keeps track of each change you make to a project and allows you to maintain multiple parallel tracks of development. svk also has a number of powerful features which are rarely found in other version control systems.

svk has been designed from the ground up to support development models that are simple and intuitive for software developers. It has advanced smart branching and merging semantics that make it easy to maintain multiple parallel lines of development and painless to merge changes across branches. svks built in patch manager makes it easy for non-committers to share changes among themselves and with project maintainers.

svk provides powerful support for distributed development. Every svk client is capable of fully mirroring remote Subversion repositories so that you have full access to a projects history at any time, even when they are off the network or on the wrong side of a firewall. You can branch a remote project at any point in that projects history, whether or not you have write access to that projects repository. Later, you can integrate changes from the projects master server (usually with a single command) or push your branch up to another Subversion repository.