OK we've got the excellent Subversion docs and man bash and if you are the bash guru and Subversion expert, you know very well how to combine these to get every job done. All others struggling with whatever is beyond cd and ls in terminal app but don't want to pay for SmartSVN or whatever will get some tips and tricks. Focus of this article is not the 500th description of the most important commands from both worlds. Instead I am going to show you how to quickly improve your day to day tasks without having to know too much about the background.