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Much of this documentation is itself freely licensed, so if you spot errors in them, please feel free to submit corrections to the relevant owners of the documentation.</p> <div class="h2" id="user-manuals"> <h2>Subversion User Manuals <a class="sectionlink" href="#user-manuals" title="Link to this section">¶</a> </h2> <p>If you want to know how to use Subversion, you can find a number of published user manuals available for <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aamazon.com+Subversion+version+control" >purchase</a> online. 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The following documents provide invaluable insight into How Stuff Gets Done Around Here. We hope you find them useful not only as you contribute to Subversion, but also as you then seek to develop and establish best practices in your own software projects.</p> <ul> <li><a href="community-guide/">The Subversion Community Guide</a> (aka "HACKING")</li> </ul> </div>  <div class="h2" id="api"> <h2>Subversion API <a class="sectionlink" href="#api" title="Link to this section">¶</a> </h2> <p>Subversion is a collection of modular libraries written in the C programming language, each of which has a clearly defined collection of functions and types that together make up Subversion's application programming interface (API). This API is stable within major release streams of the software itself, so if you write software that uses Subversion 1.1.0's interfaces, you should expect that software to continue to work when the Subversion libraries are upgraded to 1.6.0 without your having to change or recompile your software at all.</p> <p id="unsupported-versions"> After Subversion versions have reached their end of life, we still provide the old documentation for archive/historical purposes.</p> <table> <tr><th>Version</th><th>C API docs</th><th>JavaHL API docs</th></tr> <tr id="latest-release"> <td>Latest release</td> <td><a href="api/latest/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/latest/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.14"> <td>Subversion 1.14</td> <td><a href="api/1.14/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.14/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.13"> <td>Subversion 1.13</td> <td><a href="api/1.13/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.13/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.12"> <td>Subversion 1.12</td> <td><a href="api/1.12/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.12/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.11"> <td>Subversion 1.11</td> <td><a href="api/1.11/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.11/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.10"> <td>Subversion 1.10</td> <td><a href="api/1.10/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.10/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.9"> <td>Subversion 1.9</td> <td><a href="api/1.9/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.9/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.8"> <td>Subversion 1.8</td> <td><a href="api/1.8/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.8/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.7"> <td>Subversion 1.7</td> <td><a href="api/1.7/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.7/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr> <tr id="release-1.6"> <td>Subversion 1.6</td> <td><a href="api/1.6/">C API</a></td> <td><a href="javahl/1.6/">JavaHL</a></td> </tr>   </div>  </div>  </body> </html>

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