From AbiWiki

>If you are just starting out with AbiWord you will need to get the latest development version of the source code with this command.

 svn co http://svn.abisource.com/abiword/trunk abiword

Once you have a commit access to AbiWord you use subversion to get the main tree and plugins with this command (where "<username>" is you svn access name):

 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword/trunk abiword

If you need to get the 2.8 branch do:

 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword/branches/ABI-2-8-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.8
  

If you need to get the 2.6 branch do:

 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-2.6   
 svn co svn+ssh://<username>@svn.abisource.com/svnroot/abiword-plugins/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/ abiword-plugins-2.6 

After the 2.6 branch the plugins have been integrated into the main build system.

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