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note to self on nuts and bolts
on local file system:
create the folder structure you want (if you're copying an existing local instance of an svn project, you have to delete the .svn file from each folder in that project)
on command line,
cd to parent folder of the one you want to add (that parent folder has to already be in svn)
svn add FOLDER_YOU_WANT_TO_ADD
svn commit -m "message about adding new folder"

There are three files in the site which contain database connection strings:
inc/config_EDIT_ME.inc
content/maps/include/conf_EDIT_ME.inc
content/maps/include/config_EDIT_ME.xml

In each of these three files, the values for the database connection string have been replaced with placeholders. You have to make a copy of each of those files with the following names:
inc/config.inc
content/maps/include/conf.inc
content/maps/include/config.xml
In the copies, substitute the correct values for your connection string.

If the folder is in svn (which it probably is), you'll need to use svn add to add each of the files to the repo, then do your svn commit.