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Installing Tortoise SVN Using Tortoise SVN
Tortoise SVN is a standalone GUI svn client for Windows. It is not intergrated with any development environment, such as Eclipse or Visual Studio. This is the Tortoise SVN web site.
Download the Tortoise SVN Windows installer from the Tortoise SVN web site, for the current production release, not a beta release and run the installer.
Tortoise SVN actions are available from the Windows Explorer right click menu.
Sometimes the right click menu will not show the TortoiseSVN Checkout menu option. This seems to happen when right clicking on any directory that contains files checked out from svn, presumably because it does not want to checkout into a directory that already has checked out files. The solution is to right click somewhere else, then the TortoiseSVN Checkout menu option will appear. During the checkout you can specify where the checked files should go, even if where you right clicked has no relation to where you want to place the checked out files.
Tortoise svn has a global ignore setting for specifying file patterns (ex. "*.exe") or specific files to ignore. To change what files are ignored, right click in a Windows Explorer window and select TortoiseSvn | Settings. In the window that comes up, select General and in the "Global ignore pattern:" field delete add or delete a file name or file pattern to ignore, or no longer ignore.