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I have a URL for a Subversion repository and on the command line on Ubuntu I want to just download a copy of the repository as you would do in Mercurial by typing:
hg clone http://svn.somerepository.com/somerepository/trunk/docs/
How do you “clone” a repository in SVN?
Also, I just want to get everything below the docs folder – I don’t want to start in the trunk – how would you do something like this:
svn clone http://svn.somerepository.com/somerepository/trunk/docs/
You want to perform what in SVN-land is called a “check out.”
Note the main difference between SVN and distributed systems like Mercurial or Git is that SVN’s “check out” command downloads only a copy of the most recent version of each file, whereas with
hg cloneyou will actually end up with a local copy of the repository’s entire history as well. This has some implications for the way in which you work. For example, you need to have a network connection to the server in order to retrieve logs, perform diffs, etc.