• https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/subversion.html
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn-book.html
• http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-subversion-with-web-access-on-ubuntu/

• svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch -m “Creating a private branch of /calc/trunk.”
• svn checkout http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch
• svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/tags/release-1.0 -m “Tagging the 1.0 release of the 'calc' project.”

• create subversion group, add users
• sudo htpasswd /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd john
• sudo svnadmin create –fs-type fsfs /var/svn/<repository_name>
• sudo chown www-data:subversion -R /var/svn/<repository_name>
• sudo svn import /home/john/filetree/to/load http://hostname/svn/<repository_name>

• <repository_name>/
  • branches/
  • tags/
  • trunk/
    • content
    • directory/
      • more content

selected configs:

/etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf

<Location /svn>
	DAV svn
	SVNParentPath /var/svn
	AuthType Basic
	AuthName "Company Name Subversion System"
	AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
	Require valid-user

</Location>