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Asked: 2026-05-10T17:28:19+00:00

This is probably a really stupid newbie-sounding question to you developer type people, but

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This is probably a really stupid newbie-sounding question to you developer type people, but I’m at a loss 🙁 I’ve been trying to learn how to use Subversion for keeping the history of my code, but I’m finding it pretty confusing. I read the ‘book’ that comes with Subversion, but I didn’t find it all that helpful. I’m using Windows, and I downloaded the TortoiseSVN GUI for it.

All I really want to know how to do is to create a new project, put a file in it (any old file), and then update that file, just so I can see how it works. I created a ‘repository’ (in svn_repository/test), and if anyone could tell me how I’m supposed to go about creating a new file/putting a file in it, and then updating that file I’d be really happy 🙂 Knowing my luck it’ll be something as simple as ‘drag and drop the file into the directory’. Apologies for asking such a stupid question!

Also if anyone could tell me how to go about making it work with Zend Studio, that would be extra awesome-points. Thanks!

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  1. The recommended directory structure for a subversion repo contains three folders: ‘branches’, ‘tags’ and ‘trunk’. So, create these folders somewhere convenient, in a new folder.

    Right click in the parent folder of these folders, go to TortoiseSVN and select Import. Enter the url to the repository you created here (ie_ https://JUNK:8443/svn/Test/ is one I just made, on my local machine). Hit the ok button and the folders will be imported.

    Now browse to where you want the repo to live on your local machine (I’ve gone to C:\workspace\test). Right-click and go to SVN Checkout.

    Now, you want to check out from the trunk of your repo, so change the repository URL to reflect this (https://JUNK:8443/svn/Test/trunk/). Hit the ok button.

    Create a new file in this directory. Right click on it and go to TortoiseSVN, then Add. Hit ok, and the file is now marked as a new file for the repo. Right click in the parent folder of the file and you should see SVN Update and SVN Commit. SVN Update will refresh the local files with files from the repository. SVN Commit will send local files that have been changed back into the repository.

    Have fun 🙂

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