Checking Out


Checking out a working copy of sandbox

$ svn co file:///home/vijaykumar/svn/book book
A    book/chapter-1.txt
A    book/chapter-2.txt
A    book/chapter-3.txt
Checked out revision 1.



Sub-command is co 


First argument - URL, the directory in the repo to checkout


Second argument - the local directory to checkout into


Working copy contains additional files used internally by svn


Each directory has a administrative directory .svn 

$ ls -a
[.]   [..]  chapter-1.txt  chapter-2.txt  chapter-3.txt  [.svn]
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