ref from: http://web.archive.org/web/20121021221547/http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/svn/ Creating a new repository: mkdir /path/to/new/dir svnadmin create /path/to/new/dir Starting svnserve: svnserve --daemon --root /path/to/new/repository Importing project into svn repo: $ svn import -m "Wibble initial import" svn://olio/wibble/trunk Creating directory in svn repo: $ svn mkdir -m "Create tags dir..