Using Subversion

The main knowledge source for Subversion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion):

Using Subversion with KDE (http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/subversion/)
KDE Subversion HOWTO (http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+Subversion+HOWTO)

MS Windows-related notes notes for using this tool:

If you get can't recode" string error in the Cygwin bash shell, while using commands like svn up, check whether you have filenames with non-latin1 characters. Never use such characters for filenames. If you need to, remove move these files or move them outside of the Subversion directory tree. Even not-checked-in files with such characters will stop Subversion.

Additional note: non-latin1 characters work only if the environment's locale (LC_CTYPE variable) is set to e.g. UTF-8; see http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-04/0575.shtml. This is possible to set under Unix/Linux but not under Cygwin at the time because Cygwin only provides "C" locale.

Tools

The subversion clients are available as

command line tools (http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/29065/svn-1.3.0-setup.exe)
TortoiseSVN Explorer addon (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tortoisesvn/TortoiseSVN-1.3.3.6219-svn-1.3.1.msi?download).
www.cygwin.com/

Install one or both of the listed clients. Informations how to install could be found below the mentioned links.