%general-entities; ]> svn update or svn up. This command synchronizes your local working copy with the server and is probably, along with svn commit the command you will use most frequently. If you have made local changes, Subversion will try to merge any changes on the server with the changes you have made on your machine. You should always do a manual svn update before trying to commit changes in order to ensure that there are no conflicts with changes that have been made since you started your work. Note that svn commit will warn you if there is a conflict, in case you forget to perform an svn update.