Getting started with SVN on Windows 7

the quick an dirty way.

Download SVN from here

Install it to C:\csvn

open a CMD window
cd C:\csvn\bin
svnserve.exe -d


To IMPORT code INTO SVN:
open a CMD above the source folder you want to import
cd C:\acme\svnsource

c:\csvn\bin\svn import osb file:///C:/acme/svnrepo -m "Creation of my first project"

To CHECKOUT the code FROM SVN:

c:\csvn\bin\svn checkout osb file:///C:/acme/svnrepo osb

To provide username and password:
svn --username ${svnusername} --password ${svnpassword}

To display all projects with they last check-in info (revision, username, timestamp) use:
svn -verbose list url
example:

  12991 auser1              Oct 01 17:07 Project1/
  13636 auser2              Oct 09 13:32 Project2/
  10491 auser3              Aug 05 01:00 Project3/

To create a release notes (list of all comments for checkins since last version):
svn log url -v -r 2012-09-22:14-34 --xml

this will list all entries in a date range (from date to date)
svn log -r {2012-09-22:10-12}:{2012-09-23:10-12} That's all, folks!