On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Glenn Holmer <ghol...@weycogroup.com> wrote: > On 08/12/2013 03:51 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> >> Apache Subversion actually started as "Inversion" around December >> 1999, or January 2000. It wasn't until April 2000, that we accepted >> "Subversion" as a rename. It had "version" in the name, and we *were* >> trying to subvert the CVS installations/community, so the name fit >> extremely well :-) >> >> It became "Apache Subversion" in February 2010. > > > Great story, thanks!
And if you want to know how to pronounce Subversion: http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#pronounce :-) -- Johan