Our friends at TUAW.com recently posted a handy recommendation for a new tutorial written by Rachel Greenham called ‘Subversion for Writers.’ As you may know, the popular version control system, Subversion, allows you to work collaboratively with a group of people on the same files (codes) without fear of overwriting their work. Subversion tracks all the changes made to those files along with who made them, and allows you to rollback changes or branch-off into different directions without having to worry about wrecking the entire project.

Greenham’s tutorial walks you through Subversion, explaining how to install it on your Mac (if you’re running Leopard it is already installed), how to use some apps to make interaction with Subversion easier, and how to track your changes.

TUAW cautions that Subversion is not for everyone. They suggest that if you aren’t comfortable with the Terminal you should steer clear of it, and if you don’t revise the same document over and over again you’ll have no need for it.