Download an SVN repository?

Question

I'm looking for an online tool that will allow me downloading an online SVN repository (google code etc.).

Do you know of anything?

Update
I want to download the top parent folder and all its subfolders and content, without installing anything on my computer.

possible duplicate of [An online SVN client](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1192310/an-online-svn-client) — Shimmy Weitzhandler, Dec 05 '11 at 15:53
I've marked my question for closing. I've found my answer somewhere else. I just didn't know that you call it "SVN Client". — Shimmy Weitzhandler, Dec 05 '11 at 15:53
@Shimmy the "An online SVN client" link has been removed "for reasons of moderation". — Technophile, Mar 20 '14 at 17:37

score 144 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 11 '20 at 19:47

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If you want to download SVN repository online (e.g. Google Code) without installing anything, you can use wget:

wget -m -np http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/myproject/trunk/

If authorization is required, you can use the --user and --ask-password flags, which will prompt you for your password:

wget --user=yourusername --ask-password -m -np http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/myproject/trunk/

Explaining what the parameter does:

-m, --mirror:

Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing.

-np, --no-parent:

Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively. This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded.

edited Apr 11 '20 at 19:47

Imtiaz Shakil Siddique

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answered Feb 19 '12 at 14:12

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This didn't work for me, the example here worked though - http://logbuffer.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/get-files-from-svn-via-wget/ – Joshua Jan 25 '13 at 02:31
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very helpful. thanks. i was trying to download from code.google.com a project that did not have a zip download, and this webpage did just that... – techtheatre Apr 30 '13 at 18:14
It doesnt work for [quickgraph](http://quickgraph.tigris.org/svn/quickgraph/trunk), returns empty zip. – Emperor Orionii Aug 14 '13 at 07:23
@EmperorOrionii Quickgraph repos need a User/Password, the website cannot go through. The wget version worked for me on another repos. – orion78fr Dec 02 '13 at 09:11
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Site is down unfortunately, are there any alternatives? – Igor Čordaš Feb 18 '14 at 14:52
>> When does it not work? Sometimes against WebSVN (e.g., v. 2.3.3). Running this command yields files like: .project ... .project@op=rss&peg=20 .project@op=rss&peg=21 ... – ftexperts Jun 25 '14 at 19:21
Google Chrome tells me that site is phishing. – Ariel Sep 03 '14 at 07:21
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totally worked for me. but it did take some time to download a single SVN repo from Google Code (or is itjust my internet connection haha). Thanks! – patrickjason91 Jun 29 '15 at 08:33
This works on `svn.apache.org` too. But the resulting tree has an `index.html` file in every directory. I suspect it's not too friendly to the webserver either. On that server is also MUCH slower than just doing a svn checkout. (I stopped the wget after 15 minutes but the svn checkout took less than a minute.) – Eponymous Oct 19 '15 at 21:26
@Eponymous This is for those who don't want to install SVN. You can also remove all _index.html_ files by `find . -name 'index.html' -delete` – niutech Oct 28 '15 at 18:03
`-np` `--no-parent`:: Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively. This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded. – Imtiaz Shakil Siddique Apr 11 '20 at 06:05
`-m` `--mirror` :: Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to `-r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing`. – Imtiaz Shakil Siddique Apr 11 '20 at 06:06
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`If you want to download SVN repository online without installing anything`? That's just untrue. `wget` is a third-party program that doesn't come bundled with Windows. You definitely have to or had to install it. – cowlinator Dec 08 '20 at 05:39
This worked great for me on Linux, but is there a Windows (PowerShell) option? There is 'Invoke-WebRequest' which has the alias of 'wget', but they don't function quite the same. – Michael Yaeger Feb 01 '22 at 16:58
this didn't work for me b/c my repo had actual index.html files in it that got replaced with html for the directory listing – jessieloo May 05 '22 at 15:54
This link is useful for me to install and use wget: https://www.jcchouinard.com/wget/ – Md. Masudur Rahman Jun 16 '22 at 07:17

score 14 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 15 '23 at 10:42

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.NET utility for downloading google code project files(SVN). Also has Git support. Requires .Net 2.0

~~http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/~~

EDIT (now located here https://github.com/ststeiger/DownloadSVN)

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answered Jan 20 '14 at 10:45

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+1 for this utility. Single EXE, needs no install (does need .NET though), worked flawlessly and quickly. – rossmcm May 02 '14 at 04:38
Great tool. Thank you very much. – Tuyen Nguyen Jan 09 '16 at 16:07
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Doesn't seem to support username/password – Savage Sep 18 '17 at 10:55

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 05 '11 at 14:38

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Install svn, navigate to your directory then run the command svn checkout <url-to-repostitory> ..

Please provide us with some details like your operating system and what/where you want to download.

answered Dec 05 '11 at 14:38

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Well you either have to install SVN or install an SVN tool, you may as well install SVN. – Dunhamzzz Dec 05 '11 at 15:19

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered May 06 '16 at 19:48

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signup to github and then use:

https://import.github.com/new.

instructions:

https://help.github.com/articles/importing-from-subversion/#importing-a-subversion-project-to-git-using-svn2git

once you have a git repo on github you can download zip

answered May 06 '16 at 19:48

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score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 02 '13 at 00:59

One the upper left in Google Code it has a link "Checkout"

Click that and you will get a command line suggestion:

Command-line access

Use this command to anonymously check out the latest project source code:

 Non-members may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP.
svn checkout http://yourfolder.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ yourfolder-read-only

If you want a subfolder only then add it after trunk

If you are on linux & have SVN installed just CD to the folder where you want it installed first then run the above command - it will download fast

I tried all the other suggestions & this is the only thing that worked, couldnt do it with bazaar or svnDownloader app.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '11 at 14:40

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If you want a GUI to access SVN repos you can use http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ (and its Repobrwoser) If you want a browser based tool, to browse ANY SVN repo without installing SVn on your machine, i don't such a tool. I know only tools to install to your webserver and needed a installed SVN client on these server. To checkout or export a svn repo you need a svn client. (or you copy the files from the command line =) )

answered Dec 05 '11 at 14:40

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Then you must copy these folder per command line, if you have accesses. But then you copy all .svn folder, too. – Thargor Dec 05 '11 at 14:45
I have access, of course, can I do that without installing anything? – Shimmy Weitzhandler Dec 05 '11 at 15:28
Yes, this are normal Files, so you can copy they by the normal way. But all these .svn folders (in every folder or subfolder svn creates such a folder to store his informations) uses more space than the project files, so an export is the better way. – Thargor Dec 06 '11 at 13:36
https connections are slow on my ISP and i suddenly get "connection closed by server " message. but using eu5, i can finally get the repo i wanted. – Mehdi Fanai Aug 30 '13 at 22:32

score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Google page have a link that you can download the source code and the full tree.

Go to the Source tab, then click on Browse

then you see the link for Download it as:

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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There is no Download zip | tar.gz link there. – Narek Apr 07 '15 at 06:42
@Narek I browse a random project and you have right I do not see this download - how ever when I add it and the screen shots are original, I do not know why on some exist and on some other not. – Aristos Apr 07 '15 at 19:02

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 20 '14 at 16:11

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For me DownloadSVN is the best SVN client no install no explore shell integration so no need to worry about system instability small and very light weight and it does a great job just recently i had a very bad experience with TortoiseSVN on my WindowsXP_x86:) luckily i found this great SVN client

answered Aug 20 '14 at 16:11

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What if there is login required? – Brane May 25 '16 at 08:54

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 16 '14 at 11:26

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If you have proxy i suggest using SVNGITDownloader it is under .NET Framework and its source code is available

answered Mar 16 '14 at 11:26

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 05 '11 at 14:37

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If you're talking about checking it out, you probably want the subversion itself. If you're interested in history, I'd use git-svn. If you want the real subversion clone, I don't know, there was something. :)

answered Dec 05 '11 at 14:37

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on a mac - OSx 10.8.2 - it seems to be $ git svn without the hyphen. – darKoram Dec 23 '12 at 17:12
Yes, I just mentioned the phenomenon. It may work also both ways, but I think on your system `git-svn` binary is not in the path. – Michael Krelin - hacker Dec 23 '12 at 20:42

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