Experimenting with a real Subversion server

First of all, you need to install a Subversion client. Once you have it installed in your system, what you need is to introduce the URL and check-out the repository. Depending on the server setup, you might need to have an SSH account in the Subversion server and use it to authenticate against the server)

For example, let's check-out Subversion code into your local machine. You need to run the command:

svn checkout http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/

Or, if using a GUI-based version of the client, introduce 'only' the URL:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/