Setting up a Subversion Repository
If you don't already have a Subversion Repository set up
you will need to create one using the Subversion admin command.
For the purposes of this quick start guide we will use file
based access to the repository
- Download and install the latest Subversion from http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html
- From the command line (and with the Subversion install in your
path) run svnadmin create path/to/repos (e.g.
g:\>svnadmin create g:/newrepos will create a new
directory and repository on your G drive, named newrepos.)
You should now have a repository structure similar to this ...

Check out the book Version
Control with Subversion for more details on setting up HTTP and other
types of repository access. The book is also available in print.