Lets ponder on some details about Subversion to begin with Subversion is a free/open source version control system (VCS). That is, Subversion manages files and directories, and the changes made to them, over time. This allows you to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how your data changed Subversion is different as compared to typical file server as it remembers every change ever written to it —every change to every file, and even changes to the directory tree itself, such as the addition, deletion, and rearrangement of files and directories. Do you need it? If you need to archive old versions of files and directories, possibly resurrect them, or examine logs of how they've changed over time, then Subversion is exactly the right tool for you. If you need to collaborate with people on documents (usually over a network) and keep track of who made which changes, then Subversion is