This article is about the computer software framework. See rebellion, sabotage and insurgency for information on the undermining of authority.
Subversion (also known as svn) is a version control system designed specifically to replace CVS, which is considered to have many deficiencies. Version 1.0 of Subversion (released 23 February2004) offers the following features:
Most current CVS features
Directories, renames, and file metadata are versioned
AnkhSVN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnkhSVN) is a Visual Studio .NET addin. It allows you to perform the most common subversion operations from directly inside the VS.NET IDE.
gsvn (http://gsvn.tigris.org/) mostly abandoned by its original authors, due to lack of time; written entirely in python, using GTK
Other projects of note
The Open Source Trac project integrates Subversion, an Issue Tracker, and Wiki functionality into one web based interface.
The Open Source Subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org) project integrates Subversion into Eclipse.
The Open Source SVK project is a decentralized version control system written in Perl, permitting offline operations and advanced merging algorithms. It layers on the Subversion filesystem and its API.
Thus, the primary goal of subvertisements, more commonly referred to as subverts, is often to sabotage political candidates and campaigns, corporations, and other targets.
Liberal and radical viewpoints tend to dominate subvertising, as one of the ideas behind the concept is to incite change by presenting easily recognizable and understandable images that can be shocking and even disturbing in their frankness.
However, some people believe that subverts that are mockingly reminiscent of corporate or political symbols are simply giving those symbols undue publicity.
It is not, directly, the governing realm which should be subverted in their view, but the predominant cultural forces, such as patriarchy, individualism, and scientific rationalism.
This broadening of the target of subversion owes much to the ideas of Antonio Gramsci, who stressed that communist revolution required the erosion of the particular form of ‘cultural hegemony’ in any society.
In this context, the authority figure subverted has ceased to be the state and has become the all-powerful corporation.
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