Both TortoiseSVN and Subversion are developed by a community of
people who are working on those projects. They come from different
countries all over the world, working together to create great
software.
4.1. TortoiseSVN's History
In 2002, Tim Kemp found that Subversion was a very good version
control system, but it lacked a good GUI client. The idea for a
Subversion client as a Windows shell integration was inspired by
the similar client for CVS named TortoiseCVS.
Tim studied the source code of TortoiseCVS and used it as a base for
TortoiseSVN. He then started the project, registered the domain
tortoisesvn.org and put the source code online.
Around that time, Stefan Kng was looking for a good and free version
control system and found Subversion and the source for TortoiseSVN.
Since TortoiseSVN was still not ready for use, he joined the project
and started programming. He soon rewrote most of the existing code and
started adding commands and features, up to a point where nothing of
the original code remained.
As Subversion became more stable it attracted more and more users
who also started using TortoiseSVN as their Subversion client.
The user base grew quickly (and is still growing every day).
That's when Lbbe Onken offered to help out with some nice icons
and a logo for TortoiseSVN. He now takes care of the website
and manages the many translations.
