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.
Nautilus is the official file manager/browser for the GNOME desktop (http://www.gnome.org), and Konqueror is the manager/browser for the KDE desktop (http://www.kde.org). Both of these applications have an explorer-level WebDAV client built-in, and operate just fine against an autoversioning repository.
In GNOME's Nautilus, from the
, select and enter the URL. The repository should then be displayed like any other filesystem.In KDE's Konqueror, you need to use the
webdav://
scheme when entering the URL in
the location bar. If you enter
an http://
URL, Konqueror will behave
like an ordinary web browser. You'll likely see the generic
HTML directory listing produced
by mod_dav_svn. By entering
webdav://host/repos
instead of
http://host/repos
, Konqueror becomes a
WebDAV client and displays the repository as a
filesystem.