Okay thanks Tony. You have been very helpful. For anyone reading allong, here is how I got things working:
- deleted the repo that I had created by command line
- from cpanel change my theme to RVSkin (this seems to be the only way to get the SVN/Trac manager option)
- go to SVN/Trac Manager and enable/install it
- a default repository is created, I added a sub repo called repo
- from my local machine i get a command prompt, go to the directory that i want in my repo and do this: svn import -m "initial commit" svn:///repo
- to checkout the code I can now do: svn co svn:///repo
The only annoying bit is that when I am SSHed into my hawkhost account, doing svn commands gives me:
svn: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-4.6.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So I have to explicitly type /usr/bin/svn to get to the working version of svn. Adding this to my path doesn't seem to help.