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<p>L.S.,</p>
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<p>Reading the svn-book 1.7 I found the following lay out flaws (up to chap. 2, an still reading).</p>
<p>First you will find the text in the book, then my remark.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 17.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-weight: 700">Subversion's History
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">In early 2000, CollabNet, Inc. (http://www.collab.net) began seeking developers to write a replacement for CVS. CollabNet offered3 a collaboration software suite called CollabNet Enterprise Edition
(CEE), of which one component was version control. </span></p>
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<div>Here, <font face="Times">offered3</font> should read <font face="Times">offered<sup>3</sup></font>, to indicate a footnote.</div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 17.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-weight: 700">What's New in Subversion
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">The first edition of this book was published by O'Reilly Media in 2004, shortly after Subversion had reached 1.0. Since that time, the Subversion project has continued to release new major releases
of the software. Here's a quick summary of major new changes since Subversion 1.0. Note that this is not a complete list; for full details, please visit Subversion's web site at
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)">ht- tp://subversion.apache.org. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 21.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-weight: 700">How to Read This Book
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Preface </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Technical books always face a certain dilemma: whether to cater to
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">or to </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; font-style: italic">bottom-up
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">learners. A top-down learner prefers to read or skim documentation, getting a large overview of how the system works; only then does she actually start using the soft- </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21pt; font-weight: 700; ">This Book Is Free</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">The online home of this book's development and most of the volunteer-driven translation efforts regarding it is
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%)">ht- tp://svnbook.red-bean.com. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">to change this file, and what changes did he make?” These are the sorts of questions that are at the heart of any version control sys-</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Fundamental Concepts
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">tem. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 17.000000pt; font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-weight: 700">The Working Copy </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; font-weight: 700">Figure 1.5. The copy-modify-merge solution (continued) </span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">The Subversion client will automatically encode URLs as necessary, just like a web browser does. For example, the URL
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Courier'">ht- tp://host/path with space/project/españa
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">— which contains both spaces and upper-ASCII characters — will be automatically interpreted by Subversion as if you'd provided
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Courier'">ht- tp://host/path%20with%20space/project/espa%C3%B1a.
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">If the URL contains spaces, be sure to place it within quotation marks at the command line so that your shell treats the whole thing as a single argument to the program. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">There is one notable exception to Subversion's handling of URLs which
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">also</span> applies to its handling of local paths in many contexts,
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">too</span>. </span></p>
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