First, Thanks to all of you who participate in this list. It is a great help...

I have no experience with SNV command line or CVS or PCVS and am running windows. TortoiseSVN http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org. was suggested as a good/east way to upgrade versions and branches. I have downloaded and installed TortoiseSVN but have struggled with what to do. I read the Tortoise Documentation but it also assumes experience with SVN concepts. I have read http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN and Greg's Scorz's http://blog.case.edu/gps10/2006/04/06/how_to_quickly_deploy_upgrades_using_s...

but don't understand what commit means.

Could someone create a brief outline of TortoiseSVN steps. Assuming the reader has a working instance of 1.6.3 installed on c:\wiki\mediawiki\mediawiki-1.6.3 with a customized localsettings.phpin \mediawiki- 1.6.3 and one or more extensions in \mediawiki-1.6.3/extensions?

Do I move my localsettinggs.php and extenstions to different folders? Do I create a repository?

Any help would be extremely appreciated and I would be willing to turn the text into a meta.wikimedia article for the user's guide. Brian