Browse an existing repository (via a bookmark)

• Under the Bookmarks menu select Add Existing Repository...
• Type the URL (e.g. http://TagentServer/svn/RFID) and click OK

After bookmarking a repository the user can browse (but not view or edit) all the files on the server.

Next a user may want to work with a file in the repository; this is done by checking out a working copy. But RapidSVN does not do checkout at the file level. Instead, only directories can be checked out. The user could checkout the entire repository from the Repository menu but often times this is undesirable due to time and space requirements to checkout a large repository. So instead the user can checkout the parent directory of the file to be worked on. Edit a file (via Checkout) and Checkin the changes (via Commit):

• Using the repository bookmark created in the prior step, browse to the parent directory (or higher) that contains the file to be worked with.
• In the Bookmark browser, right-mouse click the desired parent directory and select Checkout New Working Copy... from the context menu.
• The URL will already be filled out (make sure it’s just the directory and doesn’t contain the filename (a bug), if you don’t remove the filename you’ll get an error).
• Enter your local path in the “Destination Directory” and click OK. This will populate your hard disk with the files and create a bookmark.
• Browse the bookmark in RapidSVN to the file to be edited and double-click the file.
• After editing and saving the file, reactivate the RapidSVN window. The status for the file should now indicate “modified”.
• In the right-hand window, right-mouse click on the modified file and select Update... to update your file with any changes by other members of your team. If the status of the file remains “modified” it is safe to proceed to the commit step. If the file status shows “conflicted” you should resolve the conflicts before committing.
• In the right-hand window, right-mouse click on the modified file and select Commit...
• Enter a log message that briefly describes your changes and click OK.