HOWTO: Checkout SVN

SVN

SVN or subversion is a versioning system like CVS (concurrent versioning system), DARCS or GIT. It allows developers to collaborate over the Internet.

SVN is a useful tool that can be used to get the latest source from a project.

For Sabayon , the command to checkout from svn is given below:

General projects: svn co http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/projects
SL Custom Catalyst: svn co http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/slcatalyst
SL Installer: svn co http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/slinstaller
SL Overlay: svn co http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/overlay

For SourceForge projects the command is give below:

  svn co https://projectname.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/projectname projectname 

Where projectname is name of project you want svn source for. In general the command to checkout the svn is given below:

 svn co http://svn.servername/nameofsvnfolder