# Creating a new Repository Location

## Overview

Before you can begin working with a SVN repository, you must define that repository location to your Eclipse IDE.

## Procedure

You create and work with your repository locations from the SVN Repository View, which is part of the SVN Repository Exploring Perspective. To create a new repository location, click the Add SVN Repository button or right clicking inside the view and selecting New > Repository Location...

The Add SVN Repository dialog will prompt you for a repository location URL. Enter the URL of the repository you want to connect to. No authentication information is requested at the time the location is defined; it is left to SVN to request your user and password information when it is needed. The main benefit of allowing SVN to manage your password in this way is that it will prompt you for a new password when your password changes. Furthermore, it will also cache and encrypt the new password.

Once you click finish, the wizard will create the location. Expand the location to see the contents for the given URL.

Related Tasks

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Related Reference

SVN Repository Exploring Perspective
SVN Repository View

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