--- title: Subversion Reviews meta_title: 'Subversion Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 64 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Subversion works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.9 review_count: 64 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # Subversion Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Version Control Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-software) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 64 ## About Subversion Subversion is an open source version control system. Founded in 2000 by CollabNet, Inc., the Subversion project and software have seen incredible success over the past decade. Subversion has enjoyed and continues to enjoy widespread adoption in both the open source arena and the corporate world. ## Subversion Reviews ### 1. SVN use to check in/out documentation **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron T. | Business Process Analyst 3, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Subversion?** I really like the versioning and history SVN provides. I like the capabilities of the repo browser as well. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** SVN is difficult to search in. i wish their was a way to search via search bar. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We keep our vehicle and software code/builds as well as documentation within svn. ### 2. Good tool, but showing it's age **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Subversion?** It's easy to set up and use. It's doesn't have as high a learning curve like Git does. It works well for small local teams. It also works well with all OS's, build tools (Jenkins, Maven etc) and has been very reliable. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** It doesn't work as well for a big distributed team such as Git. **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** If you have a small local team, SVN is a good option. If you're all over the world and work different hours, Git is a better option and worth the learning curve. Most teams are adoption Git, so SVN usage and support is dropping. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source control. It enabled us to track our code, versions and releases to production easily. ### 3. Adequate for most users **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael P. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Subversion?** Tracking and reverting changes is easy. For most use cases, it is adequate and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Does not operate without access to a centralized repository, which might be a problem if you are without internet access. Working copies can get pretty big if you have several branches with a lot of changes. **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** There are better options for organizations of any size. There really is no reason I can think of to invest in Subversion these days. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control is absolutely necessary for any significant project with multiple users. Subversion gets the job done and isn't too complex or hard to approach. ### 4. I used svn for code & documnet version management **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Subversion?** SVN can handle large bin file easily. Its help to keep track changes by other team member. Its very simple to uses. Its open source. Free to use. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Its not provide staging environment for per user. Its not distributed like git or mercurial. Its not provide hosting environment like github. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using svn for document versioning in CMMi Process. its help us to keep track changes done by team member. SVN can handle bin file better. ### 5. Used Subversion as primary VCS for more than 8 years **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2015 **What do you like best about Subversion?** - easy to learn - easy to setup on own environment - flexibility in setup (configure hocks, access privileges etc.) - good GUIs (Versions.app etc.) **What do you dislike about Subversion?** - commit conflicts - performance in general - repository size **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** Check out Git as well. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a team of five and we work on mid sized web development projects with Subversion. From time to time we include external developers into our own Subversion environment. ### 6. Good code repository, but terrible for document storage **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dusty J. | Principal Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2015 **What do you like best about Subversion?** Like any version control system, I liked the ability to maintain a single copy of documentation (requirement docs, data models, etc.), rather than having 10 copies of the same document, each with a different "version" number. Subversion provides a "lock" safeguard to prevent multiple people from making updates to the same item at the same time. I found it fairly simple to be able to locate the previous version of a document. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Since you maintain a "working copy" on your desktop, I've broken the fragile link between the desktop app and the online repository. I've broken Subversion about every way possible, and learned how to manually remove the "sync" feature for the folders in my Subversion repository so that I could re-sync my folders properly. In my organization, I found that few people actually used the lock feature before making changes. I found that the merge feature wasn't as robust as I would have liked. If I'm merging a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with another similar Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, I'd expect that to work. **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** Subversion was a step up from CVS, which the company used previously, but the version-control system of choice today is Git. It's built to work with the open-source community in mind, meaning it's robust enough to allow just about anyone to contribute code and make changes to the code base. **What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developers were using Subversion as a code repository and were quite satisfied with it at the time. Other resources were using it for version control of documentation, and finding merge issues for Microsoft Word & Excel documents. We found that Subversion was never intended as a robust document repository. ### 7. Development manager and SubVersion custodian **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon H. | Development Manager, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Subversion?** It can store anything easily. Easy to setup. **What do you dislike about Subversion?** Merging algorithms often show conflicts that are too easy to resolve **Recommendations to others considering Subversion:** Move to a DVCS instead as SubVersion is non-DVCS. If you do temporarily need to version control binaries, SubVersion is far more suited than Git. 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