Knowledge Base: Installing Subversion for Mac OS X

To install the Subversion command line client on a Mac OS X, follow these steps:

  1. Download the latest Mac OS X binary package from openCollabNet
  2. Install the file and follow the steps
  3. Once installed, run the command export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH to set the proper path.

After that is finished, you can open the Terminal and run svn --version to view that Subversion is installed and updated to the most recent version.

You can read more details about the package at in the readme file.