<p>I thought I'd get myself a Subversion setup at home for my hobby projects, and I'm trying to do it right, first time (my work's source control control policies or lack of them are, well, not perfect).</p>

<p>The thing I'm struggling with is this:  I'd like to version entire Eclipse projects.  This will be good from Eclipse's point of view - I'll just let it do its thing, and should just mean I need to ignore a few binaries / whole build directories and set up these ignores just once when I set up the project (right?).  Anyway, I've tried it a couple of times and svn seems to get confused and ignore my ignore settings.  What should be the correct procedure?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>PS I'm doing the svn bits from command line, trying to avoid a GUI till I'm happy with it.</p>

If you on a linux box, you can try these steps, if on windows, pretty the installer shall do things for you.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Subversion
Also the subversion book might help
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/index.html