Can you do a partial checkout with Subversion?

Question

If I had 20 directories under trunk/ with lots of files in each and only needed 3 of those directories, would it be possible to do a Subversion checkout with only those 3 di

Answer 1

If you already have the full local copy, you can remove unwanted sub folders by using --set-depth command.

svn update --set-depth=exclude www

See: http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/sparse-directories-now-with-exclusion

The set-depth command support multipile paths.

Updating the root local copy will not change the depth of the modified folder.

To restore the folder to being recusively checkingout, you could use --set-depth again with infinity param.

svn update --set-depth=infinity www