Checking Out a Project: Quick Checkout

When you want to update your Subversion repository, you'll make your changes in a local working copy of the repository and use SmartSVN to synchronize the local working copy and the repository.

You create your local working copy by performing a checkout in SmartSVN. The checkout is a one-time procedure which downloads all files from the repository. There's usually no need to do another checkout from the same repository; you'll keep your local working copy synchronized with the repository by using SmartSVN commands.

To create a local working copy, you just need to select a local folder for SmartSVN to use. If your repository already contains files for your site, SmartSVN will download the current versions of the repository files into a subfolder with the same name as your repository (SmartSVN 3) or into the exact folder you select (SmartSVN 4, SmartSVN 5).

A quick checkout downloads every file from your repository into your local working copy. To download individual files, use the detailed checkout procedure.

In the popup window you opened in the previous step, click the folder icon to the right of the Local Directory: text box.

In the Select Directory popup window, navigate to your preferred location for your local working copy folder.

To use an existing folder, click on the folder name and click the Select button. To create a new folder, click the Create... button, enter the new folder name in the text box, and click the OK button to dismiss the popup. Click the Select button.

The Local Directory: text box is now populated. Click the Next button.

Enter the username and password provided to you by your LCMS administrator. Check the check box labeled Save password. Click the OK button.

The Password Store is used by SmartSVN to manage your repository passwords and to log you in to your repositories automatically. Select a Master Password you'll remember easily. In subsequent sessions, SmartSVN will ask you only for your master password.

Click the Finish button.