SVN: Checkout/export only the directory structure

Question

Is there a way to perform a SVN checkout (or export), which would fetch only the directory structure; that is to say, no files?

Answer 1

on windows and with TortoiseSVN you can do Checkout -> checkout depth: only this item. this way you can get single folders/files. you could rebuild your structure this way (using the repobrowser). a bit cumbersome, but doable if your directory structure is not too complicated. i preferred this over checking out thousands of small files (several gigabytes) over slow network ...