trying to set up tortoise svn - newbie question

Question

I am trying to set up an svn on my windows computer to keep track of versions. i\'ve downloaded tortoise svn, but am confused how to install. i can\'t find a good simple ans

Answer 1

Right-click where you want your working copy, and select "SVN checkout...". Select file:///C:/svn/trunk as your repository URL and checkout. Unless you've added files to your repo, you'll get an empty working copy. Any files you create in the working copy, you can add using the Tortoise context menu.

Import is typically used when you have a complete file tree you want to copy into your repository. Select the root of the file tree, and use "TortoiseSVN -> Import" from the context menu, and select file:///C:/svn/trunk as the target of the import. This will copy the file tree into the repository, so if you then checkout from file:///C:/svn/trunk, you'll get your file tree inside your working copy.

Hope that clears things up a little.

(The book Version Control with Subversion is otherwise an excellent resource, both for new users and for reference.)