Thanks to you Gavin and welcome. As others have said, we can all help you to become comfortable. Take it easy and remember that if you are unsure about committing something then you can still put a patch in Jira.
Start by putting your entry in site-author/content/xdocs/who.xml Then try adding a small text file to be sure that your SVN client is configured properly, e.g. cd $FORREST_HOME echo "hello" > test.txt svn add test.txt svn status svn commit test.txt svn delete test.txt svn commit test.txt -David