I have a library of code already in svn.

I want to create subsets of it that I can either export or checkout, so that I only download the files needed for a specific job.

I know about (by reading[1], not doing) sparse checkouts, eg: cd C:\path\dir svn checkout https://server/path/to/trunk/dir/dir/parent_dir--depth empty cd C:\path\dir\parent_dir svn update filename.log (Edit filename.log) svn commit -m "this is a comment."

(Copy and paste from an example, hence the Windows-esque paths, although I'm only working on Linux myself.) This will do what I need, except that I'm looking for a simple way to replace "filename.log" in the example above with a name for a set of files.

Depending on what I'm trying to do, I might want to export that set of files rather than do a checkout.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122107/checkout-one-file-from-subversion