Quick HowTo Create a Subversion Repository

This assumes that you are creating the repo on your local drive.

First, create the directory in which you’ll store your repo.

Then, use svnadmin to create the repository in that directory:

svnadmin create /path/to/directory/

The typical convention is to set up an initial directory structure as follows:

/trunk

/branches

/tags

To do so, do the following:

mkdir svntemp

cd svntemp

mkdir trunk branches tags

svn import -m ‘Import of initial directory structure’ file:///path/to/repo

Now cd to whatever working directory into which you want to check out your repo and do a:

svn co file:///path/to/repo /name_of_dir_to_checkout_to

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