With git I can clone a repository and create local branches to work on. Is there some way to do a similar thing in subversion? I want to create a local branch to a repository that I don't have commit ...

I've just used post-commit.bat to call 'svn update' or whatever. To do more complicated things, I might just break down and write a C++ app or something.

Version control used to be practically synonymous with CVS, but those days are well behind us now. In fact, you not only have an abundance of systems to choose from, you also have two distinct models ...