Suggestion for http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch03s04.html

[Max Bowsher]

Stefan Lasiewski wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I find Chapter 3 section 4 a little confusing.
>
> In http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch03s04.html,
> the book gives the following command:
>
>  $ svn checkout http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk
>  A  trunk/subversion.dsw
>    (... snip ...)
>
> This checks out the SVN repository into the local
> directory ./trunk. Is that what you intended?
>
> Shouldn't we be checking the code into a directory
> like ./svn instead, like this:
>
> svn checkout http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn

That command would check out a copy of the trunk, a copy of every active 
branch and a copy of every tag of subversion! I.e., that would be many many 
megabytes. I'm pretty sure that's not what you really want to do.

Max.