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- Subversion
- Qt Creator 20.0.0

Perforce ◦ Using Git

# Subversion

Subversion is an open source version control system.

Note: Enable the Subversion plugin to use it.

In addition to the standard version control system functions described in Use common VCS functions, you can go to Tools > Subversion and select Describe to display commit log messages for a revision.

You can use Git as a client for a Subversion server. For more information, see Use Git with Subversion.

## Subversion preferences

To set Subversion preferences, go to Preferences > Version Control > Subversion.

Preference | Description
--- | ---
Subversion command | Specifies the path to the command line client executable.
Username | Specify the username to access the repository if the server requires Authentication.
Password | Specify the password to access the repository if the server requires Authentication.
Log count | Sets the maximum number of lines the log can have.
Timeout | Sets a timeout for version control operations.
Ignore whitespace changes in annotation | Hides whitespace changes in annotation views.

See also Enable and disable plugins, Set up version control systems, Use common VCS functions, and Version control systems.