Question

I’ve just learned working with subversion and a few commands such as checkout and add and list etc.
so far what I learned was that checking out a repository means creating a working copy on local so we can modify the files and then commit the changes to the real repository.
OK, so far so good, and we use the checkout command for this purpose, passing it the url to the repository.
So, My question might look rather stupid, but… where is this working copy??
After I check out the repository, where is the working copy created, and how can I access and modify the containing files?
I’m very confused about this. Any help is highly appreciated!

Answer 1

The command for a checkout looks like:

svn checkout REPOSITORY_PATH/project/directory [optional local target directory]

If you perform a svn checkout without specifying the target local directory as the second parameter, your checked out working copy will end up in a directory named the same as the item you checked out in whatever working directory you were in when you checked it out.

So for example, if you checked out the proj1 project from your/repository/projects/proj1 with a command like:

svn checkout http://your/repository/projects/proj1 

Your working copy would end up in proj1 inside the directory you were in when you ran the command. So if you did this from your home directory /home/you, it would be: /home/you/proj1

cd /home/you/proj1
svn info

Under most circumstances, you should specify the local target directory to checkout the working copy:

# Place the working copy in /home/you/code/proj1
svn checkout http://your/repository/projects/proj1 /home/you/code/proj1