SVN checkout the contents of a folder, not the folder itself

Question

Hey, I'm fairly new to linux and svn. I'm trying to checkout the trunk folder of a project into my public_html directory using this command (while in public_html):

svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk

The waterproject directory contains the files from untarring a base install of drupal.

It checks out fine, except all the files are in public_html/trunk instead of just being in public_html.

I don't know the command to move all the contents of trunk up to public_html and rm trunk, but I think I could figure that out relatively easily. I just want to know if I can just check out the contents of a folder, without the folder itself.

Thanks in advance :D,

Landon

Answer 1

Just add a . to it:

svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk .

That means: check out to current directory.

Answer 2

svn co svn://path destination

To specify current directory, use a "." for your destination directory:

svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk .

Answer 3

Provide the directory on the command line:

svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk public_html