We did pause—albeit briefly—to consider whether an alternative version control system might better meet our needs. We couldn't think of any. The decision was somewhat political since we'd recently been acquired and the parent company had its own preferred version control system. The move to Subversion could be passed off as an upgrade of our current system rather than a truly subversive act.

Our next step, then, was to evaluate Subversion. The aims of the evaluation were:

Clearly, the first step was to set up a Subversion server and import a snapshot of our CVS repository to practise on.