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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of Apache Subversion ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-49 of 49 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Software Consultant Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Was a great replacement for TFS back in it's day" May 13, 2020 3.0 Subversion was an awesome replacement for TFS over a decade ago, but there's no reason to still be using it. Any serious dev shop should be using Git these days. Pros Subversion was a godsend when I first started using it. But that was over a decade ago, and I am drawing comparison to the TFS that existed back in those days. It had great Explorer integration (through TortoiseSVN) and allowed a better way to manage multiple branches. Cons Merging and managing branches were still a massive pain. Subversion is not a system that anyone should be using any more. By now anyone who is serious about software development should be using Git. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Owner Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Subversion is no longer state of the art" December 17, 2019 3.0 Subversion was a great solution for it's time. If you are looking at it in 2019: please use git. Pros Subversion provides centralized source code repositories, which are easy to set up. Checking out of sub folders is possible without any workarounds. Cons Branching and merging is inferior compared to modern solutions like git. Most of the time one needs to solve conflicts manually, especially on file moves or renames. Alternatives considered [Git](https://www.capterra.com/p/177211/Git/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Easy Version Control" May 28, 2021 2.0 SVN can be suitable for new learners but git is recommended to use. Pros The thing I like most about SVN is that it is so simple to to learn and use. It is suitable for new developers or learners. Cons It does not provide much features like git does so git is recommended. Sometimes it takes much time to load the changes Alternatives considered [Git](https://www.capterra.com/p/177211/Git/) Review Source AD Alec D. Senior Software Engineer Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Does the job with no extra features" November 30, 2023 4.0 Pros It was very simple and performed the functions it was meant to. Cons It can be hard to setup, and you have to use third party tools to interact with your apache subversion repo. Out of the box support for some IDEs is non-existent. Review Source GC Goran C. Solution Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great option for SCM if you do not need "GIT" features" September 13, 2022 5.0 For small teams like ours where all development is done in one location and very rearely more development work on same file it was all we needed. Pros I like the ease of use. The SVN workflow is ususally quite simple. Cons SVN uses more bandwith than GIT. It doesn have all the "GIT" features. It doesn't provide collaboration tools etc. However, for small teams like ours where all development is done in one location it was all we needed. Review Source RR Ramya R. Tech Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Apache Subversion review" October 20, 2019 5.0 We use SVN for version control. Everyday we have some any modifications to keep track of what files are checked out and needs to be checked back in as part of the software development process. SVN is really useful software for the same. Pros Subversion is great for version control. The color coding that it uses to distinguish between checked out files and files yet to be checked in are really helpful. If your folder is up to date the it gives green color. If you are editing some files then it shows a read mark besides it. Cons Sometimes, inspite of getting the latest version, the files would not have updated. This would be confusing for the user. In that case you would have to delete the old folder and get a fresh copy from the server. Review Source Adolfo M. System Administrator Government Administration Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Subversion as a source code versioning tool" September 9, 2021 3.0 For small projects, it is a very practical and easy-to-use tool Pros Subversion allows the management of the source code of the applications, in a centralized way Cons Can be a bit tricky to manage large groups or projects Reason for choosing Apache Subversion For its ease of implementation Review Source DP Daniel P. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "outdated, but capable" May 15, 2021 4.0 Pros I liked how easy it was to get set up and start using. Features are straightforward and mostly self explanatory. Better permissions model than git. It's a rather capable version control software. Cons What I don't like is that it's not a distributed system. So you'll run into issues with multiple people trying to edit the same files. You'll run into problems trying to push changes if you're running offline. Bit slower than some of the other source control systems. Review Source Davesh M. DevOps Intern Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Fantastic version control for complex software" February 5, 2019 5.0 Pros Wildcard functionality, speed, ability to manage a software projects with hundreds of developers and analysts Cons Access Control list files can become hard to manage and can easily become unusable due to small errors Review Source KŻ Karol Ż. Owner Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "More simpler than GIT, enough for small projects" October 13, 2022 4.0 Pros Simple and working solution to manage codebase in small projects. Cons Since everyone knows and uses git, why introduce another tool? Review Source AF Ahmed F. Senior Software Enginner Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Subversion " March 3, 2022 5.0 Pros Multi user collaboration and version tracking of the files and seamless install Cons Has low performance with large files and the interface need improvements Review Source Tom E. President Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I enjoyed using this product until github came around" November 19, 2019 5.0 Pros We used svn to do all our version control. However, once github came around, we stopped using svn. Not that github was better, but because of the fact that github didn't require an svn setup. Cons The setup was hard, but once that was taken care of, it was smooth sailing. Review Source MC Matthew C. Software Engineer Environmental Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The minimum requirement for version control" October 16, 2019 3.0 My experience with Subversion is a little dated, as I have since migrated most of our repositories to Git, but in the past it served its purpose for basic version control, despite lacking the extra feature sets of Git. Pros Subversion (or SVN) is an easy to setup and use service and provides a comprehensive history of changes made to code. It's difficult to go wrong with SVN, owing due to how simple it is in concept. Cons Subversion has been largely overtaken by Git as the industry standard, as it lacks features such as offline branches and support for intelligent branching and merging as a platform compared to its competitor, though it remains a viable workflow for smaller scale projects. Review Source Steven S. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Legacy code repository" May 31, 2020 4.0 I used SVN for a number of years in my early development career. The key features of SVN informed later version control systems and therefore helped focus my learning later on. Pros SVN was the code repository to learn for many years. It's still around and knowledge of SVN architecture and commands remain useful for working in a software engineering role that likely has some codebases hosted on SVN. Cons Outside of the command line, the most common view for SVN is the basic browser directory structure or Fisheye. A richer web interface would be helpful to ensure SVN remains relevant today. Review Source Michael M. Senior Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Source Control Software" June 23, 2020 5.0 Subversion is nice, because it doesn't get in your way. It works with the typical software development workflow. Pros Easy to use source control. Very Intuitive. Good tooling is available for just about every environment. WE use it for small team software projects. Cons Nothing bad to say about Subversion. It works well for my purposes. Check-in and check-out of code is straightforward. Only issue I've had is a member of my team checked in a file with an invalid character in the filename, so we were stuck for a time trying to figure out how to fix that. Review Source JA Jay A. Sr. Principal Software Test Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "No longer impressed with Subversion but it still gets the job done." March 7, 2019 3.0 Pros Subversion is easy to use and straightforward compared to modern version control systems. It still works well and gets the job done. Cons It's not distributed and it doesn't support true tagging (basically it's a branch!). Review Source cO christian O. Designer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Git is a better option" October 23, 2019 4.0 Long ago Subversion was a competitor to Git, but now just about everyone has moved to Git so I'd recommend using Git instead. There are more tools, documentation, tutorials and resources available. Pros Overall, it's not difficult to get to grips with the basics. There are a number of clients with advanced GUI's so you can see clearly the status of the project in hand. I've used TortoiseSVN as my client of choice. Cons You need to be online to make changes and revert to previous versions (unlike Git which keeps the entire history of the project locally), so if you're travelling on a laptop without access to your network then you could end up stuck. The overall concept isn't as clear as Git. I love the '.gitignore' system of Git where you can list directories or files to ignore when commiting - there isn't an equivalent in Subversion which is frustrating. Subversion can't tell if you move a file to a new location (foldee) but Git will work it out. Review Source ME Martin E. Senior Programmer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A reliable and feature-rich version control system" September 5, 2018 4.0 I use Subversion regularly as it has proven to be reliable and feature-rich. I find it especially useful for smaller teams, although I'm sure it can work well on a larger-scale too. Generally I've found issues easier to resolve with Subversion than alternative version control systems. Pros Subversion is simple to use, and works well for software development teams. It is easy to troubleshoot issues and conflicts, and initial configuration is fairly painless. Cons I ran into a few merging issues with Subversion, but it was easy enough to reset and start again, until successful. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Architect Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Used to be awesome, now superseded by other solutions" July 25, 2022 4.0 Pros The centralized versioning model is fairly easy to understand for most people, developers as well as others that are less tech-savvy. Stable, robust and battle-proven. For a small team it may very well be the absolutely best alternative. Cons Branching is complex and expensive. Becomes hard to use for a very large team cooperating on a single repository (with very frequent conflicts etc). Doesn't really allow offline work. Review Source Nikola H. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "It's something that we used to know" December 5, 2019 4.0 We are only using this for some really old projects that have not been migrated to GIT yet. Pros It was a good product back in the years. It was not hard to use, however it was succeeded by better a better product... and you know the culprit :) Cons It's not like I don't like it. It has just come to an age and every product gets replaced one day. We are using git for most of our projects. Review Source CD Charles D. CTO Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Subversion has lost its shining star" February 18, 2023 3.0 Overall, when we first introduced Subversion, we were happy to have all code available in one location and to work with primitive continuous integration workflows. As time has evolved, we found that other products and paradigms really make more sense to use and that some corruption issues that can happen on the local Subversion databases are difficult to have to deal with in mission-critical moments. We're no longer a fan of the software as a result. Pros Subversion was once the standard and introduced all of us to the ability to centrally work and manage our code Cons As time as gone on, developers have realized that centralized source control is a burden and limits flexibility. Reason for choosing Apache Subversion At this time, there were no other real competitors to choose. Review Source BR Benjamin R. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Subversion is hard" January 10, 2020 4.0 Pros Nothing really. Everything about it is better when you don't use it and use git instead. The only pro is using Cornerstone to manage it. Great piece of software. Cons Everything. It is very difficult to use and not very good on different platforms. Review Source PK Phillip K. Associate Professor Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Subversion is great, but lack of popularity makes it tough" July 7, 2020 4.0 Pros SVN is super easy to use. It's easy to visualize what's going on with your updates. Cons So Subversion used to be the industry standard for version control, until git & github came along. Now it's hard to find anyone who uses SVN still, so that's the major con. Review Source JM Jeffrey M. Software Security Analyst Insurance Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Subversion with UI for linux environment" March 21, 2019 5.0 Pros Product works well with out the box with integration to git. this however provides a UI which makes branching out and merging code smooth and direct. This has greatly helped in the new company i work for as i have remote into linux machines to set up and deploy code. Cons Bit of a leaning curve to learn new commands and ensure code is pushed smoothly. Recent update has fixed merging issue which resulted in falling back to git terminal . Review Source Similar Products Featured