How to use SVN commands from command line?

Question

I am able to check out projects from SVN repository using eclipse as in the below screen shot.

But i am not able to do the same from command line..I am getting the error as : 'SVN' is not recognized as an internal or external command

If SVN is not installed on my machine how come eclipse is able to checkout?

Do i need to install SVN client in my machine?

I tried searching on my machine but could not find which path(SVN installation) eclipse is referring to execute SVN commands

Answer 1

You should install the command line client yes. For help on that see svnbook

Answer 2

Subclipse is coming with its own SvnClientAdapter which implements the Subversion API.

Subversion itself provides a default UI, in the form of a command line interface. If you want to easy operate with it on the Windows console, then you should add the Subversion home to the PATH environment variable.

Apart from that I prefer in most cases to use TortoiseSVN on Windows.