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We’ll describe here some of the basics about using subversion: starting out, changing things, and tagging releases. For more comprehensive documentation, see The SVN Book.
If you're new to subversion, you'll need to know what a few words mean, so let's go over how subversion behaves to introduce some terms.
All your files will be centrally stored in the repository on our servers. From that repository, anyone can check out a copy of your plugin files onto their local machine, but, as a plugin author, only you have tho authority to check in. That means you can make changes to the files, add new files, and delete files on your local machine and upload those changes back to the central server. It's this process of checking in that updates both the files in the repository an