5.3. Creating and Configuring Your Repository

Earlier in this chapter (in Section 5.2), we looked at some of the important decisions that should be made before creating and configuring your Subversion repository. Now, we finally get to get our hands dirty! In this section, we’ll see how to actually create a Subversion repository and configure it to perform custom actions when special repository events occur.

5.3.1. Creating the Repository

Subversion repository creation is an incredibly simple task. The svnadmin utility that comes with Subversion provides a subcommand (svnadmin create) for doing just that.