These are some notes, etc. from learning Subversion/svn. I downloaded the MS Windows client from http://subversion.tigris.org/ . I also ended up with a PDF file of a book that is also available at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ . Appendix B is entitled "Appendix B. Subversion for CVS Users" and is useful for people like me, who are used to CVS. I learned that I could also use the Cygwin version of svn, provided that it was sufficiently up-to-date. Once the MS Windows version had dealt with a server certificate in a "permanent" fashion, then svn run from bash (in my XEmacs shell buffer) was happy also. That made it easier to capture the output of "svn --help" and "svn --help command", as well as the output of e.g. "svn status -v", and save them to the file "notes.texinfo". That is a "TeXInfo file" and has the node structure shown in "notes.occur". I keep all my notes there.
While issuing svn commands I saved some of the output to file "svn_record". I didn't need a password to the I2U2 svn repository to "svn checkout" the "trunk/cosmic/src/perl" code. I could also run "svn diff" without needing a password for the svn repository.
I created a XEmacs bookmark file, for the code I had checked out to local directory "cosmics/perl". I also created a Tags file, using the "etags" that came with XEmacs (I did this with a Bash shell script and utilized a Cygwin symbolic link to the etags program).