How to build Freeplane
How to check out Freeplane and use svn
ok, first step is to get a svn client; this is the program you need for checking out of a central repository - the one where we all work together.
you need to understand what 'commit' and 'update' means, there are many hello world tutorials for svn in the net
(by the way, 'svn' stands for 'subversion', this is also the name of a command line program if you have installed the svn client.)
READ: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html
especially try to understand what is going on in
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#co-svn
after reading the example, you can try that out in your svn client (either plain cli program svn, tortoisesvn which is a gui for the same functionality integrated in the file explorer) and check out the code from freeplane.
There is also a web interface for better svn browsing:
http://freeplane.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freeplane/
(insert the url directly in your browser, see what happens!)
the files you'll get are locally saved copies from the central repository. you can change them as you like, edit files, delete files, even directories - svn will track what you've done and eventually you can 'commit' the files again, which means you want to put your local changes to the central repository.
You don't need to check out whole projects, subversion can also just checkout a directory, or a subset of directory trees.
Try
for example: it will create the directory of images you want dimitry to put them 'in the main thing which saves our "code"'. This is it, plain and simple.
Only if you want to change something centrally, you'll have to get a username and a password for that.
Of course, if you use eclipse with the subversion plugin, checking out projects is very easy. you can also try www.netbeans.org, which does it perfectly well also.
concerning your problems: seems like you've tried to add metadata stored in .svn directories which typicaly happens if you download 'somehow' the whole archive (means: without a client). the data in the .svn directories manage the whole 'versioning' process, but this data mustn't be commited, added or updated, its the task of your svn client to do so.
again, there are many svn howtows out there, read
http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-subversion-basics
where sb uses a command client svn. google for svn howto, subversion basics etc.
BUT: using svn is tricky sometimes ...
