While there are plenty of tips in the wild how to add a project to an existing SVN repository, I have my own peculiar way to bootstrap one. Say, for moving my topic map knowledge base to SVN.

Let's assume I had a tree already:

Move that out of the way:

Create the local SVN infrastructure:

Yes, bash can do that. Really.

Copy now any relevant content into the trunk

Import that into the SVN repository:

Move the local copies out of the way:

And check out the project again:

Lest I forget.