title: Using Subversion, where is "actual" source code stored?
body: <p>I'm just getting used to Subversion and I have a fundamental question about versioning.</p>
  
  <p>I've created my SVN repository on a server "S" hosted in my network. Assuming I "import" code, files, directories, etc. from another computer "A" in the network, it gets added to my server's SVN repository. </p>
  
  <p>I do a checkout from another computer "B" in the network and I can get all the code from the repository and so on.</p>
  
  <p>Assuming I format or destroy PC "A", would my source code still be available through a checkout in B? </p>
  
  <p>If yes, when I actually browse into my repository folder on the server, I don't find a replica of the folder, only the configuration, db, etc. directories. Where is the data physically stored on the server S, if it is there at all? Currently, the directory size of the repository is clearly much smaller than the source code folders.</p>
  
  <p>I think VSS keeps a copy of the actual code in some unrecognizable db format, git has the option of not requiring to do this. Does SVN also maintain a copy of the code somewhere?</p>