[reSIProcate] subversion best practice

[Shaun Dawson <scdawson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

  Sorry for the dumb newbie questions, but what's the best practice
for checking out resiprocate for the purposes of fiddling around and
writing client programs?

  Should I use http://scm.sipfoundry.org/rep/resiprocate? or
http://scm.sipfoundry.org/rep/resiprocate/main?

  If I use /resiprocate, is main the branch that I should decend into
and compile?

  Should I copy the branch I'm interested into a directory external to
my subversion working directory for compiling?  If so, is there an
automated way of doing that (in the Makefile, for instance)?

  Lastly, I've been all around the website and wiki, and haven't found
this aspect of things very well documented.  It seems like the
documentation was geared towards folks who already know what is going
on.  Is there documentation that I'm not aware of that covers this
sort of thing (a downloading and compile HOWTO, for example)?  If not,
I'm in a good position to write some, as I'm coming from a position of
complete ignorance.  What's the best place for that, the Wiki?  Would
that be useful?

(Warning: If the answer is yes, be prepared for an onslaught of even
dumber questions as I try to formalize what puny knowledge I have
managed to amass :))

thanks,
  Shaun