This section is from the "Version Control with Subversion" book, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick and C. Michael Pilato. Also available from Amazon: Version Control with Subversion.
There are two ways to get new files into your Subversion repository: svn import and svn add. We'll discuss svn import here and svn add later in this chapter when we review a typical day with Subversion.