Once you've imported a project to your local file system, you'll have even more options. We'll be using the Repo browser quite a bit in this tutorial but you can also do a few things directly to a folder, including importing a subversion project, or creating a new repository. What all the shell extension stuff means is, you open the GUI for TortoiseSVN by right clicking a folder in Windows Explorer and using the TortoiseSVN menu. It'll also give you a strong, well-intentioned hint to read the manual. Ah, get it? See, it's a tortoise, and it's a shell extension? Anyway, if you try to open the TortoiseSVN program, it'll tell you this directly. There's not much else to see though, because TortoiseSVN is actually a shell extension. And now we'll see a few new items in our Windows programs menu. If you're feeling generous, you can also click the donate button here and give money to the people who make this fine free tool. You'll see the install dialogue run through the file copy and registration, and then you'll end up with this final screen where you can click the finish button when you're done. We've already got them, so I'm going to leave this as-is and click next. If you've already got the SVN command line tools, feel free to leave this feature deselected. If you don't already have any command line tools installed, I would recommend adding this feature. It's up to you if you want to install these too. And by default, all the install options are checked except for the command line client tools. If you're fine with the license, click next. As with everything else, please feel free to read this as thoroughly as you want to before accepting or rejecting it. When I click next, you'll see a license agreement. I'll double click the MSI file, allow it to run, and you'll see a nice license screen. I'll switch to the downloads folder, and once it's downloaded, open the MSI file to start the installer. Choose the one that matches your Windows install and download it. You'll see installers for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. To install, open your browser and go to, and then click the downloads tab. I actually switch between Eclipse and TortoiseSVN all the time to access my subversion server. And even if you had some version built into your programming environment, you'll find that some things are actually much easier to do in TortoiseSVN. This is free software that has some great functionality. If you're a Windows user, and you'd rather use a graphical client that's not integrated with any programming tools, I recommend using TortoiseSVN.
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