It also demonstrates how to use the public APIs to write a program that uses Subversion. Are you asking about the thing currently at that location, or the old thing you deleted from that location? If other people publish their own changes, Subversion provides you with commands to merge those changes into your working copy by reading from the repository. Coincidentally, at the time Karl was already discussing a design for a new version control system with his friend Jim Blandy. And rightly so.
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