Where is SVN on OS X Mountain Lion?

From living in Australia, I always understood it to derive from the same word used for both tadpoles and sperm - both very similar in appearance and role.

Seed of my loin, like spawn, used interchangeably afaic. Never heard the recruit meaning.

Install the latest Xcode from the Mac App Store.

Go to Xcode » Preferences » Downloads » Command Line Tools » Install.

If you don't want to download/install Xcode, you can always just download Command Line Tools for Mountain Lion from Developer Downloads.

If you have Xcode installed and if you use bash :

$> vi ~/.profile

add this at the end of your .profile PATH="${PATH}:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/"

$> source ~/.profile

It should be working

Also checkout Homebrew for these type of packages :

brew install svn

XCode will only install SVN 1.6.18 (r1303927). But you can easily install Subversion from Apache. Just download the source files at http://subversion.apache.org/download/#recommended-release, unpack and go into Terminal. Navigate to the folder you just unpacked via

cd /path/to/folder

(you can drag & drop the folder from Finder into Terminal). Then type

./configure

wait

make

wait quite some time

sudo make install

However you might need to change your PATHS by going to /etc

cd /etc

and open the PATHS-File

open paths

In my case, the old installation was in /usr/bin/svn (you can check that with "which svn"), the new one is in /usr/local/bin. Both are in the PATHS-file, but in the "wrong" order.

You can also install the SVN and other command line tools without installing the full xcode as per this article:

http://blog.grapii.com/2012/08/svn-missing-in-mac-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion/