For additional information, see the subversion website and the subversion book.
You can checkout a repository over the local filesystem or via SSH.
svn co file:///var/svn/repos/kattare/trunk kattare
svn co svn+ssh://me@hostname/var/svn/repos/kattare/trunk kattare
Within a repository, you can:
Update the repository to the latest version
svn update
See a summary of any local changes
svn status
Put files (or directories) under revision control
svn add
Commit any changes you have made
svn commit
If, for some reason, you want to throw away changes you have made:
svn revert
For additional command-line help
svn help
svn help checkin
svn help status
svn help ...
