When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
– Richard E. Pattis
Here again, apt is more than generous:
$ sudo apt-get install subversion
We do not install with Apache because we will access svn via ssh in a much more secure way. First, we create the directory that will host our project and repository:
mkdir /var/svn/MyApplication
We “inform” SVN that this directory is a repository:
svnadmin create /var/svn/MyApplication
At this point from our favorite IDE, we can check out or initialize the repository when we have it locally. The repository URL is in the following format:
svn+ssh://svnserver/var/svn/MyApplication