The Subversion folks recommend that project have a branches, tag, and trunk directory, to make doing things like branches and tags easier. Importing this way will mean your repository will only have this one project.% mkdir DungeonBorkventure % cd DungeonBorkventure % mkdir branches tags trunk # put source files into trunk % svn import . file:///usr/local/svnroot -m "initial checkin" % cd .. % rm -rf DungeonBorkventure # or move it aside % svn checkout file:///usr/local/svnroot/trunk DungeonBorkventure % cd DungeonBorkventure # and get to work