Suppose you’ve just created a new Subversion repository with the command svnadmin create my-repository in your home directory. To access this repository, construct a URL with the following elements:

  • Scheme: svn+ssh
  • Host: svn.cpfs.mpg.de
  • Path: /Volumes/Users/your-username/my-repository
  • User: your-username

Collecting these elements, the correct URL for accessing your repository is svn+ssh://your-username@svn.cpfs.mpg.de/Volumes/Users/your-username/my-repository, so for example the command

svn list svn+ssh://your-username@svn.cpfs.mpg.de/Volumes/Users/your-username/my-repository/trunk

(all on one line) should give you a list of files currently present in the trunk of your repository.