SubVersion has for at least a couple years been the standard for version control for distributed projects. However, I wasn’t, until very recently, satisfied by any of the pre-built server distributions for Windows.

Yes, I know, you’re supposed to run SVN on Apache on Linux. But sometimes, especially if you happen to be a Windows shop, there are some undesirable hidden costs in doing that.

Anyway, I’m happy to report that support for SVN deployment by Windows non-developers has improved. For example, Collab.net has a good server distro – see http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/. It can operate as a stand-alone service (i.e. without a web server dependency).

Collab.net includes a command-line client, which is also fine, but the standard SVN client for Windows is pretty much Tortoise (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/).

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