SVN checkout filtered by file extension?

Question

I have a home-grown automated build script in the form of a DOS batch file. In part of that script, I check out (with \"svn checkout\") a section of our SVN repository that

Answer 1

This is possible: you can svn checkout an empty directory, and then svn update filename for each file that you do want.

Your script can do something like:

1. svn checkout svn://path/to/repos/directory --depth empty
2. svn list --recursive svn://path/to/repos/directory
3. Pipe that result through a filter that removes the forbidden file extensions, e.g. grep
4. Iterate over this new filtered list and svn update --parents each file

That would give your desired result of a working copy without certain files or file extensions.

Of course, there is also the issue that you mention of “people [checking] in lots of fluff” but that’s a separate matter.