How do I checkout a working copy with folders but not files?

Question

Is there a way to create a working copy with all child folders but without files in it? My repository is very big, I only need the empty directory structure to be created.

Answer 1

You can use the --depth switch to check out an empty directory:

svn co --depth empty <URL>

Then you can do a svn update --depth empty <folder> for each folder you are interested in.

For documentation of the feature "sparse directories" see here.