There are several books about Subversion, some small some huge. Yet, none of them gives a 5 minute get-going guide. Most of the developers are seasoned CVS users, so we do not really need a tirade about version control - just get us going!
And (I can hardly stress this enough) we\'d really like Subversion to authenticate over SSH. Leave that "pasword db" (in essence - open text file) or Apache Module bullcrap, to somebody else. Neither do we need the WebDav for version control - thank you very much, but no.
The last time I set up a SVN repository (accidentally - my first time, too) it took me looking through 4 different books and a week\'s work on and off. Today I needed to do it, again and I found out that I did not remember much of the last experience. Well, it did not take me a week, but still more than I would want to spend on it. Anyway, to save myself time, in the future and in hopes of this being useful for folks who don\'t want to read 4 books, here is how it is done, on Unix (Windows can get lost, as far as I care):