
Whenever you see below a line starting with a dollar sign, you should type the text after the dollar sign in your terminal and hit return. It can be found in the /Applications/Utilities folder. If you don't know what that means, don't worry. To be able to call the Subversion commands from every directory, you must add it to your path. *Note: For other Subversion packages this path is usually /usr/local/bin. Instead it installs some command line commands into the directory /opt/subversion/bin* on your hard drive. Note that Subversion itself doesn't feature a graphical user interface, so you won't find any new files in your application directory after installation. I recommend downloading the Subversion Mac OS X package from Collabnetĭownload and run the installer. If these changes conflict with changes other people may have uploaded since the last time you updated your working copy, subversion tries to merge these files and solve the conflicts. When changes are made to the working copy, they can be uploaded to the repository. Subversion works by setting up a central repository on a server or local computer that every user connects to and downloads a personal working copy from.
#Subversion for mac for mac os x
It is written primarly for Mac OS X users, but since Subversion itself works the same on all platforms, most of this tutorial should apply to Linux or Windows users, too.


This tutorial explains the basics from installing subversion and getting started to working with other people on the same project.
