| 4 | Creating a Local Repository |
Most people using Subversion don’t need to worry about creating or maintaining a repository since it’s an administrative task usually performed by a server administrator or Unix guru. If you don’t have access to one of these people or if you’d like to experiment with your own repository, you can use what’s called a local repository.
A local repository needs to live on your hard drive somewhere. For Windows, this might be a dedicated directory on the C: drive; for Unix and Mac OS X, it’s probably somewhere in your home directory. Once you have created an empty directory, you need to tell Subversion to initialize a repository in that directory. Command-line users should use the svnadmin command to achieve this. Tortoise ...
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