In Chapter 3 we set up our Subversion repository. This currently exists only on our project server. Although we can perform some basic actions directly on this (as we will see shortly), to actually use Subversion we need to have a working copy of this on our client machine. We can get this working copy by performing an action known as checking out. Once we have made some changes to our working copy we will check them in to the repository. Until we check in our changes they are not a part of the version history in our repository.
Currently our repository is completely empty, and ideally we need to define a basic structure to keep things organized later. We could make these changes on our working copy, but instead we'll make them directly in our repository.
First we will ensure that subversion works and we can access our server from our client.
We need to perform the following steps from a command prompt (Start menu, Run, type cmd, and click OK) for Microsoft Windows, or...