Adding new SVN repository / Check out

SVN must already be installed in your Eclipse before this.

1. Open 'SVN Repository Exploring' Perspective. On the 'SVN Repositories' View, click on 'New Repository Location' button.
2. Enter URL, username and password, and finish.
3. Select the project and right click. Click on 'Find/Check Out As...'
4. Choose 'Check out as a project configured using the New Project Wizard' to ensure that the project is check out as an eclipse project (allow setting of build paths)
5. Proceed and complete the check out.

Getting started with Eclipse Subversive

Getting started:
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/documentation/gettingStarted.php

Installation:
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive/documentation/gettingStarted/aboutSubversive/install.php

Sample Installation: (Eclipse Helios)

Install Subversive Plugin using Eclipse update site
1) Help -> Install New Software...
2) In the "Work with" dropdown, select the update site of your eclipse version, e.g Kepler. The available software sites will be listed/displayed.
3) In the list, select Collaboration -> Subversive features then install. At the least, you only need the Subversive SVN Team Provider.

Install Subversive Plugin using SVN update site
1) Help -> Install New Software...
2) In the "Work with" dropdown, select the update site of SVN. If it is not available click "Available Software Sites". On the window that opens, select subversion update locaion. If location is not found, add it. SVN will now appear on the "Work with" dropdown. Select it.
Sample
Name: Subversive
Location: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/0.7/update-site/
3) In the list, select Subversive features then install.

Install Subversive SVN Connectors
1) Restart Eclipse
2) After restart you'll see connectors discovery dialog.
3) Install Subversive Connectors without registering connectors update site manually.

http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/helios-site/ -

Update:
If the SVN Connectors are not downloaded,
1. make sure you are using a fresh workspace to launch Subversive Connector Discovery upon restart
2. get the latest release from:
http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/subversive/download.php?utm_source=eclipse.org&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=subversive
Latest Release – Recommended

• http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/0.7/update-site/ - [required] Subversive plug-in
• http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/2.0/update-site/ - [required] Subversive SVN Connectors
• http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/integrations/update-site/ - [optional] Subversive Integrations

Help (free book):
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

Sources:
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive

What is Subversion

Subversion® is an open-source version control system. Subversion® allows developers to share there projects on the repositories, where they are stored afterwards. Repository is much similar to a file server, except the fact, that it not only stores the copy of the file system, but its previous states and changing history. Subversion® access its repositories using network, so it provides a probability for a person to work over some shared files and watch for every possible changes made by other developers.

Subversion® home:
http://subversion.apache.org/
http://subversion.tigris.org/ - old home

Trunk, Branches and Tags
Trunk is a main (head) line of development. That's where you share your project and do initial commit. Branches are the additional lines of development. Used when branching for different versions from one initial is needed or when each developer has his own development line and plan. Tags are a kind of specific labels for a set of files each with its own revision number. Used to track the important events if project's life cycle.

Apache Subversion - provides an API for Subversion developers and package maintainers to build Subversion from source code

Binary packages - packages from volunteers built on top of Apache Subversion
- some of the available packages are here: http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html
- Example: Slik SVN

SVNKit
SVNKit is a pure Java toolkit - it implements all Subversion features and provides APIs to work with Subversion working copies, access and manipulate Subversion repositories - everything within your Java application.

Sources:
http://subversion.apache.org/
http://subversion.tigris.org/
http://www.eclipse.org/subversive
http://svnkit.com/index.html