title: Maven scm and svn
body: <p>I am having trouble accessing the svn revision number through Maven. The only real help I've received from the SCM usage page is the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;scm&gt;
      &lt;connection&gt;scm:svn:http://somerepository.com/svn_repo/trunk&lt;/connection&gt;
      &lt;developerConnection&gt;scm:svn:https://somerepository.com/svn_repo/trunk&lt;/developerConnection&gt;
      &lt;tag&gt;HEAD&lt;/tag&gt;
      &lt;url&gt;http://somerepository.com/view.cvs&lt;/url&gt;
  &lt;/scm&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This means nothing to me as I can't figure out what connection, developerConnection, and url mean. I simply plugged in the url to my repo for all 3 elements. I also don't know why Maven does not ask me for the username and password for the repository.</p>
  
  <p>I am very new to Maven and might be asking a very basic question but would appreciate a full explanation as to how I am to access the svn repo.</p>