Quick and dirty: SVN is version control software. Mantis is a web-based bug tracking in PHP you can install on your server. And Beanstalk is hosted a SVN service, because I screw up my own repositories all the time.

The cool part is that you can hook scripts into SVN for just about anything with the right knowledge. The bad part is that, with hosted SVN, you generally don't have the ability to set up those hooks. Here is how I got around that little caveat. (more…)