How do I download code using SVN/Tortoise from Google Code?

Question

I just saw a really cool WPF twitter client that I think is developed by the Herding Code podcast guys HerdingCode called Witty. (or at least, I see a lot of those guys using this client). This project is currently posted up on Google Code.

Many of the projects on Google Code use Subversion as the version control system (including Witty). Having never used Subversion, I'm not sure what to do to download the code.

On the source page for this project (google code witty source) it gives the following instruction:

Non-members may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP.
svn checkout http://wittytwitter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wittytwitter-read-only

I'm confused as to where I am supposed to enter the above command so that I can download the code.

I have installed SVN and Tortoise (which I know almost nothing about).

Thanks for any help or simply pointing me in the right direction.

...Ed (@emcpadden)

Solution 1

After you install Tortoise (separate SVN client not required), create a new empty folder for the project somewhere and right click it in Windows. There should be an option for SVN Checkout. Choosing that option will open a dialog box. Paste the URL you posted above in the first textbox of that dialog box and click "OK".

Solution 2

Create a folder where you want to keep the code, and right click on it. Choose SVN Checkout... and type http://wittytwitter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk into the URL of repository field.

You can also run

svn checkout http://wittytwitter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk

from the command line in the folder you want to keep it (svn.exe has to be in your path, of course).

Solution 3

See my answer to a very similar question here: How to download/checkout a project from Google Code in Windows?

In brief: If you don't want to install anything but do want to download an SVN or GIT repository, then you can use this: http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com

Solution 4

Select Tortoise SVN - > Settings - > NetWork

Fill the required proxy if any and then check.

Solution 5

Right click on the folder you want to download in, and open up tortoise-svn -> repo-browser.

Enter in the URL above in the next window.

right click on the trunk folder and choose either checkout (if you want to update from SVN later) or export (if you just want your own copy of that revision).

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Comments

[Axonn]

The Google Code instruction can be deceiving. They say: "svn checkout mock-as3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk mock-as3-read-only". I mistakenly included "mock-as3-read-only" in the URL, thinking that the space is a formatting issue or something. As jodonnell said, only add up until the /trunk, not anything further.

[Chunky Chunk]

just wanted to include that the command line method is the same for Mac OS X.

[Edward]

The Google Code instructions are for the command line only. When executing on the command line, the name at the end is the local folder name the code is checked out to.

[Aaron]

Thanks @Axonn !! Same thing happened to me. I wasted 15 mins trying to figure out why the checkout wasn't working.

[Azahar]

replicaisland.googlecode.com/svn/trunk replicaisland-read-only URL does not exists

[0xC0DED00D]

I was about to waste 15 minutes too, only if I havn't read Axonn's comment.