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Date: Thu Feb 14 14:58:50 2013
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version control design, Subversion <emphasis>is</emphasis> very
powerful, very usable, and very flexible.</para>
- <para>This book is written to document the 1.8 series of the Apache
- Subversion™<footnote><para>We'll refer to it simply
- as <quote>Subversion</quote> throughout this book. You'll thank
- us when you realize just how much space that
+ <para>This book is written to document the 1.8 series of the
+ Apache™ Subversion®<footnote><para>We'll refer to it
+ simply as <quote>Subversion</quote> throughout this book. You'll
+ thank us when you realize just how much space that
saves!</para></footnote> version control system. We have made
every attempt to be thorough in our coverage. However, Subversion
has a thriving and energetic development community, so already a
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
version control</firstterm> has likewise garnered widespread
attention and adoption. Tools such as Git
(<ulink url="http://git-scm.com/" />) and Mercurial
- (<ulink url="http://mercurial.selenic.com/" />) quickly rose
+ (<ulink url="http://mercurial.selenic.com/" />) have risen
to the tops of the distributed version control system (DVCS)
ranks. Distributed version control harnesses the growing
ubiquity of high-speed network connections and low storage
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
directly between users' local data stores, not via a
centralized master data store. In fact, any semblance of a
canonical <quote>master</quote> source of a project's
- versioned data is by convention only, a status attributed by
+ versioned data is by convention only, a status imputed by
the various collaborators on that project.</para>
<para>There are pros and cons to each version control approach.
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@
serving the purposes best suited to the tool.</para>
<para>Alas, this book is about Subversion, so we'll not attempt
- a full comparison of Subversion and other tools. Readers who
- have the option of choosing their version control system are
+ a full comparison of Subversion and other tools. Readers
+ empowered to choose their version control system are
encouraged to research the available options and make the
determination that works best for themselves and their fellow
collaborators. And if, after doing so, Subversion is the
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