How to access Subversion from Windows

You want to participate with open source community like WordPress or Google Code. Most of them use Subversion. Subversion is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation .That’s why you may need a Subversion client to access Subversion server.

Access Subversion is easy,it’s like using Window Explorer.
There are many subversion clients out there, i won’t discuss all of them, only one, TortoiseSVN

Why do i like TortoiseSVN? because it’s mini, quick and easy to use.
Download the TortoiseSVN and install it to your computer.
You’ll get TortoiseSVN menu on desktop > right-click

A shortcut to use TortoiseSVN for accesing Subversion hosted server like WordPress or Google Code by Repo Browser (TortoiseSVN -> Repo Browser). Repo Browser is like a mini version of Windows Explorer

When you open Repo Browser you’ll ask to input your URL, that’s an URL of your Repository, where your files were saved in Subversion. Mostly use this address, example http://www.yourweb.com/yourprogram/

Once you entered the Subversion repository, you can add, edit, delete files in that repository. Add a file to Subversion with Repo Browser is easy, in left window you’ll get your address and its directories. Just right-click the trunk directory, choose add file, just like Windows-browse and upload.

Repo Browser doesn’t have menu bar, just right-click the directory, pop-up the menu or command for Subversion