From the Subversion FAQ:
Subversion 1.1 (and later) has the ability to put a symlink under version control, via the usual svn add command.
Details: the Subversion repository has no internal concept of a symlink. It stores a “versioned symlink” as an ordinary file with an ’svn:special’ property attached. The svn client (on unix) sees the property [...]
GetBundle currently ships with it’s own svn binary from the 1.4 branch, but it is easy enough to make it use a different one.
Open TextMate
Go to TextMate > Preferences > Advanced
Click Shell Variables
Add a new variable called TM_SVN and set it to the path of the binary you want to use
Close the preference pane and [...]
I compiled subversion 1.4.4 and its dependencies (apr, neon) from source when I first got my Macbook, before I had installed MacPorts. Recently I wanted to upgrade to subversion 1.5, and also remove any trace of my previous compile, so I went to my src folder where I had subversion untarred and tried:
~/Documents/src/subversion-1.4.4$ make uninstall
make: [...]