About Subversion

With the svn client on a Unix-like system (e.g., GNU/Linux, MacOSX) you can check out a project using the shell-command

	# svn co http://checkout_url/project_name local_copy
	
      

where local_copy is the directory you'd like to create to store your working copy.

GUI front-ends for SVN are also available for the major operating systems (Mac, Unix and other). Subversion can also be linked in to many IDEs and GNU Emacs (install psvn.el, then use "M-x svn-checkout").