I posted the relevant bits in a new post, available here: http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2008/02/28/read-only-and-read-write-svn-repositories/

I've found your post while I was looking for the exact same solution: I want to have one public folder in my repo (anoymous reads, authenticated writes) but was fighting with Apache's config the whole day and didn't get it working. Can you please send me the relevant config entries for Apache and the svnaccess file?

Thanks, Alex

If you're looking for a basic Subversion tutorial, there are myriad options available online. If you want a TortoiseSVN specific resource, they have some of those available on their website.

If a user/pass is required, you should be prompted for one automatically. Beyond that, I'd recommend reading up on some docs/manuals.

Browser-based SVN access is read-only; there's no way to edit files, only view them. SVN uses HTTP (really the WebDAV extensions) as a network layer, so you use the same URL with a real client as you do with the browser.

However, my SVN repositories are not anonymously writable (for obvious reasons), so whatever client you use (browser or otherwise), you can only read them. If you have a mutable repository, any real client (Subclipse, TortoiseSVN, etc.) will let you commit changes to them.