In AnkhSVN 2.0 there’s a new way to open an existing solution from subversion. In previous versions you had to use the Repository Browser to find the path you want to check out, and then check out to a local file path, then open the .sln file.
In 2.0 this is streamlined and also looks a lot more like other Scc providers (Visual SourceSafe/Team Foundation System) and work with the generic documentation
The command is in the File -> Open menu as shown below.
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Here you get a pretty default FileOpen dialog, with the exception that you enter urls in the File name: box. (This can be any url that Subversion supports like svn:// http(s):// svn+ssh:// and file:///)
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After entering an initial url, you can navigate to the solution file. This acts as a replacement for the repository explorer.
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After clicking open on the sln file, the dialog below appears. Here we show a dropdown of the possible directories available for checkout, and we try to take an educated guess about which one is right (by looking at trunk/tags/branches, the top of the repository, the location of the sln file).
The local directory is the default projects directory as set in Options -> Projects and Solutions
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When you hit OK, the checkout starts:
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And when it finishes, the Solution is automatically opened
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