Wondering why some svn commands I read in this book won’t work on my mac, I found out that I still have version 1.4.4 installed.
Wanting to get a newer version, I read an instruction saying “you’ll need MacPorts and therefore first install XCode and then…” – but I was pretty sure that wasn’t the best way. Having to install two programms just to get the newest subversion? However, as I’m still rather new to this “prorgamming on a mac” thing, I needed a little help from a friend to figure out an easier way:
1. download the binaries at http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/community/
2. doubleclick, install
3. add /opt/subversion/ to the path (do something like echo ‘export PATH=/opt/subversion/bin:$PATH’ >>./bash_profile in the Terminal)

That’s it!