Hands-on: Hook up with an SVN repository

For subversion you need the "SVN backend" module - http://drupal.org/project/versioncontrol_svn - not the CVS one.

Step 1: create an SVN repository (skip this if you already have one)

• svnadmin create /home/joe/testrepo
• svn co file:///home/joe/testrepo /home/joe/testrepo-checkout
• cd /home/joe/testrepo-checkout
• echo "Blah" > a.txt
• svn add a.txt
• svn commit -m 'Initial Blah!'

Step 2: set up your Drupal site with that repository

• Enable the "Version Control API", "Commit Log" and "SVN backend" modules.
• Go to Project administration > VCS repositories > Add SVN repository in the admin area.
• Repository name: "Test repo", or whatever.
• Repository root: "file:///home/joe/testrepo".
• Save the repository, then follow the "fetch now" link.
• Enable the "Commit messages" menu entry, or go directly to the "commitlog" path.
• The commit shows up there and the message log will be updated on every cron run.