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I have to checkout a repository that has 8 branches which I don't wont to download each branch size ~400MB. Only need to checkout the folder structure and the trunk. 

repo/trunk
repo/tags/<do not download content of this directory>
repo/branches/<do not download content of this directory>

Any idea? Prefer command line use.

Gihan
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You want to use Subversion's sparse directories feature.

svn co --depth immediates URL_TO_REPOSITORY PATH_TO_WORKING_COPY
svn update --set-depth infinity PATH_TO_WORKING_COPY/trunk

Or, just check out the trunk directory, if you're not going to work with the tags or branches at all.

alroc
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  • the 'or' part is the real sauce. check out the trunk, `svn co http://svn-server/repo/trunk repo` – thekbb Dec 16 '13 at 15:44
  • There may be a legitimate need to have the "stub" of the other 2 directories locally. – alroc Dec 16 '13 at 15:47