How to resolve this command

[sysabod]

hi all.My title is a little confusing for my question,sorry for that coz i could not figure out how to refer to the ...

here is the command:

svn checkout svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk kamikaze

My doubt is what does svn:// represent here ? Is it like http, a protocol or other thing?

Thanks for any help .

[sohguanh]

svn I think represetn Subversion a kind of Open Source version control software just like CVS did in the olden times. Version control software is important as it helps to mange different versions of the source code for your programs.

[sysabod]

Hi, i know what svn is used for ,but i just doubt why we have to type svn://,is it a location to a drive or anything else ?

Sorry for the late reply...

[sohguanh]

I think you are right. svn:// is a custom protocol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion

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Repository access
Main article: Comparison of Subversion clients

Access to Subversion repositories can take place by the following means:

1. Local filesystem or network filesystem,[7] accessed by client directly. This mode uses the file:///path access scheme.
2. WebDAV/Delta-V (over http or https) using the mod_dav_svn module for Apache 2. This mode uses the http://host/path access scheme or https://host/path for secure connections using ssl.
3. Custom "svn" protocol (default port 3690), using plain text or over SSH. This mode uses either the svn://host/path access scheme for unencrypted transport or svn+ssh://host/path scheme for tunneling over ssh.
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[sysabod]

thanks a lot !