svn Getting started with svn Installation and initial setup
Example
Install the svn client to start collaborating on the project that is using Subversion as its version control system.
To install Subversion, you can build it yourself from a source code release or download a binary package pre-built for your operating system. The list of sites where you can obtain a compiled Subversion client (svn) for various operating systems is available at the official binary packages page. If you feel like compiling the software for yourself, grab the source at the Source Code page.
With Subversion, you are not limited to using only the standard svn command-line client. There are some notable graphical Subversion clients for various operating systems and most of the IDEs nowadays provide robust integration with SVN right out of the box or via plugins. For the list of graphical clients, check the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Subversion_clients.
Right after you install the client you should be able to run it by issuing the command svn. You should see the following:
$ svn
Type 'svn help' for usage.
Everything is mostly ready. Now you should create a local workspace called a working copy which is going to be connected to the remote central repository. In other words, you are going to checkout a working copy. You are going to operate with the versioned data with the help of the working copy and can publish your changes (called committing in SVN) so that others working on the same project can see them and benefit from your changes. To later fetch the future changes made by others from the repository, you would update your working copy. These basic operations are covered in other examples.
