Obtaining an initial copy

You should have received an account name and password from the repository maintainer. How do I check out the new copy?

with a web browser

Just point your browser to https://svn.mathweb.org/repos/mathweb.org/dir, where dir the directory in the repository that you are interested in. Some parts of the repository allow anonymous access, while others willprompt for a user name and and password. Contact the maintainer of this part of the repository for obtaining access.

on UNIX

cd ~; mkdir svn; cd svn

this sets up a directory ~/svn in your home directory (you may do something analogous if you want to have the local copy somewhere else). Then you check out your local copy with

svn --username name --password passwd co https://svn.mathweb.org/repos/mathweb.org/dir

where name is your account name, passwd is your password. This command creates a local copy of the repository at ~/svn/repository on which you can work.

On windows

in the windows epxlorer there you go to File menu and there to the CheckOut item. This will give you the repository browser, fill in the URL https://svn.mathweb.org/repos/mathweb.orgdir this will prompt you for account name and passwd and will create the local copy in the current directory.

From here everything will work just as usual with svn update, svn commit cycle we have described above.

Beware: there is a command svn import, which is very useful for putting whole directory structures into the repository under Subversion control, this is NOT the command for initial checkout, but will commit something to the server!