''Merging conflicts by hand can be quite intimidating the first time you attempt it, but with a little practice, it can become as easy as falling off a bike.''
 -- The SVN Book, Chapter 3

[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] is the revision control software in use by the NLP lab. 

==Repository==
Our repositories are located at http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/subversion

If I wish to get a copy of the NIST HEAD code, for example, I would type
:<code><nowiki>svn co http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/subversion/NIST/HEAD</nowiki></code>

==Issues==
Sometimes Subversion breaks. Here's how to rescue your working copy, or at least your changes....