Subversion to download files

[kadnan]

Ignore my ignorance and dumbness about Subversion. I want to download files from sourceforge via Subversion Client. First of all I am not sure whether it's possible or not to fetch all files on my local hard disk? if yes then any command?

Thanks

[lambda]

do you have subversion installed? type "svn --version" to see.

to check out files from a subversion repository, type

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svn co http://path/to/svn/project

or

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svn co svn://path/to/svn/project

the instructions on the website for the software will give you the proper repository path.

[kadnan]

do you have subversion installed? type "svn --version" to see.

to check out files from a subversion repository, type

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svn co http://path/to/svn/project

or

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svn co svn://path/to/svn/project

the instructions on the website for the software will give you the proper repository path.

I don't have some standalone client. I found a plugin of Windows Explorer so that one can browse subversion within Windows EXplorer. would you recommend any client[for Windows]?

[lambda]

if it's an http repository, you can use any web browser to view the files in the repository. if it's an svn repository, you probably need to check it out on your local machine before you can view it. i vaguely remember a commandline tool to browse repos (it let you type "cd" and "ls" to look inside the repo) but i used it long before svn 1.00, and i can't find it now.

i recommend tortoisesvn, which is probably the windows explorer extension you found.

[fawad]

I like to use the standard subversion commandline client, but others at my workplace use TortoiseSVN. Tortoise supports local, http, svn, and svn+ssh servers.

Oh, and if you look really carefully, the sourceforge website provides the commandline for checking out the code from the repository. No thinking needed.

[kadnan]

if it's an http repository, you can use any web browser to view the files in the repository.

It's an HTTP respository and I can view files but it's pretty hectic to view individual files when they are more than 100. This is why I wanted to download all of them in a go.

[fawad]

You can do svn co or svn export for exporting out just the latest rev.

Also, if the repository is being exposed using viewcvs (AKA viewvc), it usually has an option to export out the currently selected subtree into a zip file.