This library provides Ant task(s) as wrapper(s) over the svn command line utility. Alternative approaches like JNI or even a native Java SVN client exist and have been taken by other teams. In particular we know (this list is certainly incomplete): * using javahl JNI bindings of subversion * using a pure Java SVN client each of which provides Ant tasks. The task(s) of this library only provides very rudimentary support for SVN, matching what the traditional Ant task(s) for CVS could do. If you need more than what this library provides, we encourage you to check out the existing alternatives.