Subversion: What to do with branches, tags and trunk folders?

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Published on 2010-03-22T05:18:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 5:21 UTC
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A little background first:

I'm a designer/developer and decided to use subversion for a personal project. I'm the only one working on this project. I've setup a Beanstalk account and installed Versions on Mac. Locally I have MySQL and PHP running through MAMP.

First thing I did in Versions is click the 'checkout' button. I selected my webroot folder and a folder has been created with three subfolders: branches, tags, trunk. I don't understand what to do with this. My code lives in the webroot and a bunch of subfolders and I can't move my code to any of the three folders without breaking things.

So, my question is, how do I tell Versions that my code is in the webroot folder and not in the folder it created itself?

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