Subversion 1.0 packages for OS X

Bill Bumgarner’s packaged Fred Sánchez’s Apache 2.0/Subversion binaries for Mac OS X. Double click the installer, and you’re done.

Why all the hubub? Subversion is version control software. Like CVS, you can go back across the changes you made to a file or a collection of files.

I’ve mentioned this before, but with Subversion, you can make a repository visible through WebDAV. That means you don’t have to give people privileged accounts on the machine with the repository.

But what I really want is an XML database that can look like a file system, and that I can query with XPath.

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