Hi, I've been looking at some video tutorials, this in particular:

Version Control with Subversion 2 video tutorial - Software Carpentry - Version Control with Subversion - Learn: sourcecontrol, systems, carpentry, beginner_programming, software, subversion, work, commands, system, essentials, client, demonstrates,

I'm trying to follow along but found a few things I had to overcome that the video didn't explain, like installing svn, etc.

Now, I've created a group called subversion of which my user and the apache user have access.

Next I created a repository called test, in /home/svn/test as recommended by this site: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion .

SO I can now checkout test/ BUT I can't add any files. When I enter this for example, in the test/ directory:
Code:
svn add hello.txt
I get the error:
Code:
svn: '.' is not a working copy
svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No such file or directory
Can anyone give me an idea of what I'm doing wrong?