Definitive Startup Guide for Subversion

Getting Started

Already an expert? Copy the above URL into your Subversion client and start committing, or navigate to your project page. Or, for beginners, keep reading.

1. Install a Subversion Client

 Download subversion installer, Cornerstone 2 or Eclipse;

 Download Tortoise, SmartSVN or Eclipse; or

 Install from source or via your package management utility. e.g.:

	yum install subversion
	apt-get install subversion
	

2. Checkout your Repository

First copy the above URL and using your terminal / command line app, checkout your repository locally:

	cd ~/sources
	svn co --username jesseyowell https://spiderpigjesse.svn.cloudforge.com/newsvn
	

3. Add some files and directories

Now you've referenced your on-line repository, it's time to add something.

	cd newsvn
	echo "first line of my first file... yay\!" > helloworld.txt
	svn add helloworld.txt
	

4. Commit it to the server

	svn commit -m "my commit message" helloworld.txt