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

I can't see that there is a way to do it from a brief look at svn help co. Something I've done before for updating a repository from a new version of a downloaded library (i.e. a vendor branch) is to delete everything which isn't an .svn folder:

#!/bin/sh
find ./ -type f | grep -v .svn | xargs rm -f

It's not particularly efficient if you were trying to avoid having to check those files out in the first place, but it should have the same result.