Assuming you have an account already, log on to the admin panel here. Once you've logged in, click on Add under Repositories. You should now see a text field for the Repository name and a Create button. Enter in the desired name of your repo (e.g., “my_repo”), then click Create. Your repo should be now created and you should be able to see it if you click on List under Repositories.

Next, you'll want to give yourself read and write permissions. Click on List under Access-Paths and find the name of the repo you just created. Click on the repo name and you'll be presented with a page to add/modify/remove user permissions for your repo. Select your username from the User dropdown, change the permission to “Read & Write” and click Assign. You'll now have read your repo, and commit changes to it.

Now that you've created a repo and have given yourself the correct permission, you'll want to check out a local copy. As a running example, you can run the following command in a terminal:

svn co https://svn.ics.uci.edu/titans/my_repo/

If you're not familiar with SVN, you can find a nice tutorial here.