Subversion's Architecture
Figure 1.1, “Subversion's Architecture” illustrates what one might
call a “mile-high” view of Subversion's
design.
On one end is a Subversion repository that holds all of your
versioned data. On the other end is your Subversion client
program, which manages local reflections of portions of that
versioned data (called “working copies”). Between
these extremes are multiple routes through various Repository
Access (RA) layers. Some of these routes go across computer
networks and through network servers which then access the
repository. Others bypass the network altogether and access the
repository directly.
