Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

Name

checkout

Synopsis

svn checkout URL ... [path]

Check out a working copy from a repository. If path is omitted, the basename of the URL is used as the destination. If multiple URLs are given, each one is checked out into a subdirectory of path, with the name of the subdirectory being the basename of the URL.

Alternate names: co

Changes: creates a working copy

Accesses repository: yes

Options

--depth arg

--force

--ignore-externals

--quiet (-q)

--revision rev, -r rev

Examples

Check out a working copy into a directory called mine:

$ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos/test mine
A  mine/a
A  mine/b
Checked out revision 2.
$ ls
mine

If you interrupt a checkout (or something else interrupts your checkout, such as loss of connectivity, etc.), you can restart it either by issuing the identical checkout command again or by updating the incomplete working copy:

$ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos/test test
A  test/a
A  test/b
^C
svn: The operation was interrupted
svn: caught SIGINT

$ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos/test test
A  test/c
A  test/d
^C
svn: The operation was interrupted
svn: caught SIGINT

$ cd test
$ svn update
A  test/e
A  test/f
Updated to revision 3.