Subversion Tutorial?

[eluser]haydenk[/eluser]
http://codeigniter.com/news/codeigniter_...subversio/

So, I never could wrap my head around what exactly I am setting up there as there are symlinks and folders all over the the place.

Curious though, if I am just slow because it took me awhile and sit down and play with another/a better way to do it. I got the idea from wordpress.org on an interesting way to setup the wordpress files so I can easily update it without messing with MY additions.

Anyways, what I did was, created a folder above my htdocs/httpdocs folder called "ci", checked out the codeigniter source into that folder and created 2 symlinks in my htdocs/httpdocs folder. One symlink to the index.php and one to the system folder. It loaded perfectly. After reading the index.php file to learn how it sets up my application folder, I found that it checks if an application folder exists in the main HTTP web folder, if not it defaults to the application folder in "system".

Code:

domain.com/
   ci/
      .svn/
      index.php
      system
      user_guide
      license.txt
   httpdocs/
      .htaccess
      favicon.ico
      robots.txt
      index.php -> domain.com/ci/index.php
      system -> domain.com/ci/system
      application/

.htaccess file

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

So, with only 2 symlinks, I managed to setup CodeIgniter in it's own folder for easy SVN updates and kept it separated from my application files.

Am I just slow at figuring this out or is this a lot simpler?