Tortoise GUI clients are cool, but they don\'t really help to understand, how versioning woks and what happens \"behind the scenes\". And understanding such things is very i
In TortoiseSVN you can enable this by enabling debug. If you Right-Click in your explorer and use TortoiseSVN -> Settings.

In the settings window, select Advanced, find the setting called Debug and set it to true. This will give you a popup with the command/s about to be executed just before you run them.

More about the advanced settings in TortoiseSVN: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-registry