Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition

Name

svn checkout — Check out a working copy from a repository.

Synopsis

svn checkout URL[@REV]... [PATH]

Description

Check out a working copy from a repository. If PATH is omitted, the basename of the URL will be used as the destination. If multiple URLs are given, each will be 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 (-r) REV

Examples

Check out a working copy into a directory called mine:

$ svn checkout file:///var/svn/repos/test mine
A  mine/a
A  mine/b
A  mine/c
A  mine/d
Checked out revision 20.
$ ls
mine

Check out two different directories into two separate working copies:

$ svn checkout file:///var/svn/repos/test  file:///var/svn/repos/quiz
A  test/a
A  test/b
A  test/c
A  test/d
Checked out revision 20.
A  quiz/l
A  quiz/m
Checked out revision 13.
$ ls
quiz  test

Check out two different directories into two separate working copies, but place both into a directory called working-copies:

$ svn checkout file:///var/svn/repos/test  file:///var/svn/repos/quiz working-copies
A  working-copies/test/a
A  working-copies/test/b
A  working-copies/test/c
A  working-copies/test/d
Checked out revision 20.
A  working-copies/quiz/l
A  working-copies/quiz/m
Checked out revision 13.
$ ls
working-copies

If you interrupt a checkout (or something else interrupts your checkout, such as loss of connectivity, etc.), you ...