Better way to create project?

I just put my bin folder in subversion. I am a new user, so maybe I do
not do things in the right way. So I would like to know if there is a
better way to do things.

I moved my bin folder to bin.old.
I created a bin folder in my repository.
I did a checkout of the bin folder.
I moved the files from bin.old to bin.
I removed bin.old.
I did a svn add.
I did a svn commit.

This are quit a few steps. Is there a better way to do this?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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