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.
Linux davfs2 is a filesystem module for the Linux kernel, whose development is located at http://dav.sourceforge.net/. Once installed, a WebDAV network share can be mounted with the usual Linux mount command:
$ mount.davfs http://host/repos /mnt/dav