[dba-VB] Subversion repositories and server

I use subversion here at my office.  I have to say I find it confusing and "just use it" without 
really understanding it.

I am trying to set it up at my clients as I am about to start doing some VS 2010 / C# stuff there to 
replace some less reliable Access stuff.  I want the repositories to reside on the server with all 
of its raid and backup safety net.

Here at my office I use the file:// method of accessing the repository which the way I understand it 
is nothing more than allowing VSN on the workstation to check in and out through a shared directory.

When I started research on Google I am getting "shared directories is a bad idea, use a server", but 
I do not know how to do that.

I have set up the server simply by downloading the VisualSVN Server msi and installing it.  I 
created a group and a user and ser my user into the group.  I then created two repositories for two 
different projects and added the group to the project with R/W access and disabled the Everyone user.

My question is how do I get my workstation to use the server now?  I am using VS 2010, and it has 
the VisualSVN package installed.  I just need to "hook up" the VisualSVN in my workstation to get 
data from the repository server.  Onw would think that there would be a place to go to tell 
VisualSVN in the workstation "your server is named XYZ" etc but I am not finding that.  The "Get 
solution from Subversion" has a Repository URL line but it does not automatically look for and find 
my repository and I have no clue what the URL is.

IMHO this is the shakiest part of using this stuff.  Any help is much appreciated.

-- 
John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

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when you do not believe in it