Here are some links to SVN and Make that I use.

Note: This used to point to CVS resources. CVS is dead (or at least should be).
Use subversion (AKA svn). (At least until something better comes along.)

• CVS and Makefiles
  The talk I prepared for the UKQCD Workshop on Lattice QCD Codes.
  (Local copy, the philosophy of the benefits of CVS remains true for SVN)