| 7 | Checking Out a Working Copy |
You need to check out the files from your repository before you can access them on your computer. The files will be stored in a local directory called a working copy. Your Subversion client will talk to the server and copy the latest files onto your computer ready to edit. You will be asked for a username and password if your repository is secured.
Subversion projects are usually stored in a trunk directory on the server; this will be the case if you have followed the instructions in this book for creating projects. You need to specify this trunk directory as part of the repository URL from which you are checking out. If you forget, you’ll end up checking out everything in the repository—branches, tags, everything—and ...
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