How to Read this Book

This book aims to be useful to people of widely different backgrounds: from people with no experience in version control, all the way up to experienced sysadmins. Depending on your own background, certain chapters may be more or less important to you.

What kind of reader are you?

The book ends with reference material: chapter 9 is a reference guide for all Subversion commands, and the appendices cover a number of useful topics. These are the chapters you're mostly likely to come back to after you've finished the book.