Learning SVN properly

Question

I'm very new with using SVN. But I have used GIT for a year and never had so much trouble doing some the simplest(?) things.

I am having an easy time creating a new SVN repo on my local machine (Mac). I understand leaving a commit, viewing the commit log, checking the status of modified files, etc. But I'm having the hardest time pulling a repo/syncing changes from a previously set up SVN repo on a server.

When I run:

svn co http://subdomain.site.com 

I get:

svn: OPTIONS of 'http://subdomain.site.com ': 200 OK (http://subdomain.site.com)

Double and triple checked the URL. Far as I can tell, I am doing something way wrong when pulling a repo from a subdomain. (have managed to pull and sync from a non-subdomain before...once) I have watched/read many tutorials. Most skips past where I have issues. I would rather use GIT but some of the old sites I mess with use SVN.

Answer 1

This link http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-01/0211.shtml strongly suggest that even after triple checking the url it is probably wrong.

Btw: most subversion repositories behind a http server have longer url's. For instance http://svnserver.insomedomain.com/svn/svnrepository/trunk/project

or http://svnserver.insomedomain.com/svn/svnrepository/tags/project/v1.0