On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Pietro Moras wrote: > > more specific questions > > My pleasure, dear Geoff, > Here you have some very Specific Questions. > > SQ1] How to get what I presume is a nice Subversion prompt: > > $ > > on one of my standard Windows machines, so to test the wonderful Subversion > commands so eloquently described by the mentioned self-declared Official > Guide and Reference Manual, so practically useless at the very beginning of a > learning process; that is, exactly when you need most practical and effective > information and support?
I think the idea of the book is that it's a guide on how to *use* Subversion, not a guide on how to *get* it. As a parallel, books on how to use MS Word don't tell you on page 1 that the first step is to visit your favorite software retailer and purchase a copy of Word--they assume that you already have Word installed. > SQ2] Why should I go scrabbling and begging via Google for practical, > operative info, I'd reasonably expected to find right away at page 1 on the > mentioned book, or at the page 1 on the Subversion web site? It is one the figurative page 1 of the Subversion web site. The navigation menu on the left side of http://subversion.apache.org/ has a "Getting Subversion" section. Click the Binary Packages link, then the Windows link, then choose any of the packages that are listed. > > SQ3] Am I the first Subversion potential user starting from scratch? > Everybody else knowing how to set-up a Subversion environment even before > beginning to use it? The documentation has instructions on how to set up a Subversion environment.
