broker - Originally, a broker or brokour bought wine cheaply in quantity and sold it at a profit; broker came to mean any retailer who did this, or a middleman/agent.
Definition - What does Apache Subversion (SVN) mean? Apache Subversion (SVN) is a free and open-source software developed by the Apache Software Foundation that acts as a control system for tracking changes to files, folders and directories.
1 A SVN repository can also be used to compare different revisions of a file or collection of files, perhaps to review changes or identify possible causes of a newly detected bug. 2  The revision log also makes it easy to keep track of the reasons why a certain change was made.or example, you can: 1  Download the SVN tools and setup a server yourself. 2  Using a SVN hosting service to serve your SVN repository is often a simpler and faster alternative.