Misc info
Whatever you do, don't checkout /jakarta/commons as you will be checking out a copy of every tag, trunk, and branch and it will take forever and a day. *Instead*, check out individual components, or (more likely) check out "trunks-proper" or "trunks-sandbox".
scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/$\{pom.artifactId.substring(8)}/trunk
Commons repo
Software
- http://subversion.tigris.org/
- http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
- http://subclipse.tigris.org/ (Add http://subclipse.tigris.org/update as an update site in Eclipse's update manager)
- http://esvn.umputun.com/ Standalone client for Linux, Mac, Windows