On Jul 15, 2010, at 02:35, Giulio Troccoli wrote: >> Okay, with those preliminaries out of the way, open the >> Terminal and do the following. The "$" will represent your >> command prompt. This can be changed, so in Unix, it is common >> just to put "$": >> >> $ cd $HOME >> $ svn mkdir svn_repos >> $ cd mkdir svn_repos >> $ svnadmin create newrepo >> >> This will create a Subversion repository at >> /Users/TommyHome/svn_repos called "newrepo". You can find >> this in Pathfinder. Now, you will want to create a working directory: >> >> $ cd $HOME >> $ svn checkout file://$PWD/svn_repos/newrepo svn_project > > I think this should be > > $ svn checkout file:///$HOME/svn_repos/newrepo
Except that now your working copy will get created with the name "newrepo" which is weird since it's not a repo, it's a working copy. So from the original example, $ svn checkout file://$HOME/svn_repos/newrepo svn_project would be clearer. > I know that with the cd command before, $PWD and $HOME are the same, but it's > safer to use $HOME, as it will always point to the correct location. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, if you know what you're doing. > Also, notice the three /. According to the book you should either have > file://localhost/$HOME... Or file:///$HOME... However I tried on a RHEL and > file://$HOME works too $HOME begins with a slash, hence file://$HOME/... is correct.
