SVN: Checkout/export only the directory structure

Question

Is there a way to perform a SVN checkout (or export), which would fetch only the directory structure; that is to say, no files?

Answer 1

My DotNet (LINQ) way to do this:

First, run the svn list command. And push the output to an .xml file.

"svn.exe" list "https://myserver.com:8443/svn/DotNet/src/v40Base/v40/" --recursive --username %USERNAME% --xml >>myfile.xml

And then run some LINQ code against the .xml file.

    private static void FindSVNDirectories()
    {

        string fileName = @"C:\temp\myfile.xml";

        XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(fileName);

        //XNamespace ns = XNamespace.Get("http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003");
        string ns = string.Empty;

        //List of directories
        var list1 = from list in xDoc.Descendants(ns + "list")
                    from item in list.Elements(ns + "entry")
                    where item.Attribute("kind").Value=="dir"
                    select new
                       {
                           mykind = item.Attribute("kind").Value,
                           myname = (item.Element(ns + "name").Value)
                       };

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach (var v in list1)
        {
            sb.Append(v.ToString() + System.Environment.NewLine );
        }

        Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());


    }