"A stock Eclipse installation has integrated support for CVS, a popular open source change-management system. The abilities of CVS, and its limitations, are well known, but many groups have been investigating other version-control systems to provide better scaling, better support for merging changes and branching versions, and better support for binary file formats.
"Subversion (SVN) is a popular replacement for CVS, offering improved performance (courtesy of intelligent local caching and a database back end), easy and fast branching, and an answer to every one of the shortcomings that people often run into while using CVS..."
