SVN Basics

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SVN Basics

Subversion (SVN) is a version control system. It is designed to be distributed, concurrent and expandable.

Version Control with Subversion is a wonderful book to help on making the first steps inside Subversion. You may also ready it online.

SVN Client

To work on the FCKeditor SVN, you need a SVN client software. There are two options that we recommend:

  • TortoiseSVN (strongly recommended), for Microsoft Windows.
  • The official SVN client, included in most Linux and BSD distributions; available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Checkout the FCKeditor trunk

Checkout is the act of downloading the FCKeditor code from our SVN server inside a local folder in your computer. This folder is called "local copy".

With TortoiseSVN

  1. Create an empty folder, which will be your local copy root. You may give any name for it, like "fckeditor".
  2. Right-click on the new folder and select SVN Checkout....
  3. In the URL of repository, paste the following URL:
    http://svn.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor/trunk/
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