On 20/04/12 23:06, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > I don't know of any way to do that from SVN. > > The wiki at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SvnSetup shows how to remove > directories that you don't need, but I don't know of any way to remove > them before you have checked them out. > > Ian You can checkout just the immediates, and increase the depth (svn up --set-depth infinity) for the trees you are insterested in. The svn switch trick listed in the wiki is a hack to perform the equivalent of a depth of 'empty' (which has been there for a long time, but perhaps that note is even earlier) ie. svn update --set-depth empty