Unix in a Nutshell, 4th 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

--config-dir dir	--password pass
--no-auth-cache	--quiet (-q)
--non-interactive	--revisionrev, -rrev
--non-recursive (-N)	--username user

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 like 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.