9.1. The Subversion Command-Line Client: svn

To use the command-line client, type svn, the subcommand you wish to use,^[56] and any options or targets that you wish to operate on—the subcommand and the options need not appear in a specific order. For example, all of the following are valid ways to use svn status:

^[56] Well, you don’t need a subcommand to use the --version option, but we’ll get to that in just a minute.

$ svn -v status
$ svn status -v 
$ svn status -v myfile