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
As I told here, there is only one option build into SVN itself: A new feature in SVN 1.5 called sparse checkout, however you can only select checkout on directory level, so you have to sort the files you do not need in a different directory.