Requirements

To check out source code from the Subversion repositories, you need the Subversion version control system. In addition to the standard Subversion command line client there are further Subversion clients (the clients and plugins section) for different platforms to choose from.

Subversion checkout

The following instructions assume the usage of the standard Subversion command line client.

To get a copy of a Subversion repository, move to your source code directory and issue a Subversion checkout command:

$ svn co https://svn.coin3d.org/repos/repository-name/trunk repository-name 

For example, to check out the Coin-2 repository, run:

$ svn co https://svn.coin3d.org/repos/Coin-2/trunk Coin-2

The checkout command will create a directory 'Coin-2' in the current directory.

(The '$' characters at the start of the line just signifies a command prompt and should not be typed.)

Note that no username and password is required. If you do get a username/password prompt, check that the repository url is spelled correctly, while keeping in mind that the repository names are case sensitive.

Staying up to date

To be notified about updates in the Coin3D related Subversion repositories, you can subscribe to the coin-commits mailing-list. To update the Subversion repository, run:

$ svn up

in your checked out source tree. All the latest changes to the sourcecode will then be fetched and merged with the sourcecode you already checked out.

Available Subversion repositories

For information on all available Subversion repositories, please see the libraries overview page.