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

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user114518 picture user114518 · May 29, 2009 · Viewed 118.3k times · Source

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.

Answer

Sander Marechal picture Sander Marechal · May 29, 2009

Just add a . to it:

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

That means: check out to current directory.

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