jimwillsher said the following on 01/23/2006 03:40 PM:
> Many thanks for the info. I must admit I've never heard of svn (I'm new
> to Linux), so I'll go and RTFM. But that sounds promising.

svn is a "successor" to cvs.

The home page is http://subversion.tigris.org

> I guess it's creating a symbolic link (slimserver) to a folder, the
> contents of which will be updated when I run the svn up command. Is
> that correct?

That's right.

You can also use other versions of the server by changing the sym link.

Also, you can revert to specific revisions if you find a problem with
the latest one.

It's all in the subversion book [1].

[1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

R.

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