Question

I would like to use Subversion and checkout only source files (for example: checking out only .c, .cpp and .h files). Is this possible ? If so, how can I do that?

I am trying to get the webkit source code from:

http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/releases/WebKitGTK/

I don’t really want to change the code and check it in again or build it. I just want the source files because downloading the entire release is about 3GB per version.

PARTIAL SOLUTION:

For now I am going to download the directories i want. But i could traverse through the directories recursively, and then download the files that follow the pattern i want.

This is a pseudo python code I will call

GetAllSourceFiles('http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/releases/WebKitGTK/')

def GetAllSourceFiles(directoryName):
list = svn ls directoryName
for name in list:
    if name is a file of type c,cpp or h:
       do svn export directoryName + name      
    else if name is directory:
         do GetAllSourceFiles(name)

Answer 1

If you know structure of repository, you can checkout specific folders. I never tried it with files. But you need checkout each folder separately. You need to write it like this for typical svn repository

for trunk

svn co  repository_url/trunk/path_to_folder checkout_destination/

for branch

svn co  repository_url/branches/name_of_branch/path_to_folder checkout_destination/

for release

svn co repository_url/releases/name_of_releases/path_to_folder checkout_destination/

edit

You can try to write a script working in loop

Using

svn ls repository_url/releases/name_of_releases/path_to_folder

check if folder contains source files.

if folder contains source files, then download it using

svn co repository_url/releases/name_of_releases/path_to_folder --non-recursive

Check next folder