Sébastien Barbieri's blog

The first mistake was to put everything at the root of the subversion…

You should allways avoid that.

Actually everybody should read the complete svn book before doing anything else.

So the very first thing you should do:

create a temporary directory ”’C:\myVeryTempDir\”’ right click your mouse in the explorer white part (I assume that tortoise svn is already installed) and choose SVN Checkout … (to create the .svn files) and choose you svn root as repository ( something like http://svn.projxpertcom/[my svn proj code]).

then in this directory ”’C:\myVeryTempDir\” for each project create this folder tree

project/trunk/
project/branches/
project/tags/
another_linked_project/trunk/
another_linked_project/branches/
another_linked_project/tags/

Now add you change and Commit them.

Right click in the directory again

• Tortoise SVN … > + Add …
• SVN Commit…

ok done you have created the very root of your subversion system, great…

remove the directory ”’C:\myVeryTempDir\” you don’t need it anymore.

Now go in the directory where you code is (here we use a share) ”’Y:\var\www\”’ and Put this in subversion by doing this:

1. Right click: SVN Checkout
2. fill the url of the trunk (which will becomes your main development directory) ”’http://svn.projxpert.com/[my svn project code]/trunk”’ and confirm everything
3. Now add the files: Right click: Tortoise SVN … > + Add … and confirm everything
4. Commit the changes: SVN Commit…

Great, it’s done.