

Personally, I haven’t used SVN since my early programming days, and never in my professional career. While not a common choice in larger studios, smaller ones and indie teams have long been using SVN as their backbone and for good reason. In the games industry, SVN remains a very popular choice due to being free and implementing the file-based source control model which maps so well to our needs, as outlined in the previous articles. Its massive popularity from the 2000s until today has only been outshined by Git fairly recently. We couldn’t reach the end of this series without talking about a source control giant, I’m talking of course about Subversion or SVN for short.Įvery programmer should have heard of Subversion. Questions in violation of this rule will be removed or locked.This is part of a series of posts on source control for game development. Specific assistance questions are allowed so long as they follow the required assistance post guidelines. General open ended career and getting started posts are only allowed in the pinned monthly getting started/careers thread. Problem you are attempting to solve with high specificity.

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