svn checkout and update --depth/--set-depth option usage

Assume you have a project structure as this: You have a core-spoke model. The spokes depend on core piece. Different teams of developers are working with different sets of core and spoke projects. You have this project in SVN repository.

CodebaseRoot -> Core
                          -> Core1
                          -> Core2
                          -> .........
                          -> Core k
                       -> Spoke
                          -> Spoke1
                          -> Spoke2
                          -> ..........
                          -> Spoke n

Where each spoke component is dependent on some/all of the core components.

Assume this is a large codebase and you might need to work only with subset of spoke and core components. You need not checkout the whole codebase.

Selectively checking out the codebase can be done using the following steps: Be under the directory where you want to check out the code.

a) Run svn co --depth=immediates at <CodebaseRootURL>
    Now you have a local copy containing only Core and Spoke empty directories.

b) Run cd Core. Then run svn up --set-depth=infinity with <CodebaseRoot>/Core URL.
    This will checkout the core code piece completely. You can selectively checkout  too. For now let us assume that our spoke projects depend on all core pieces.

c) Run cd ../Spoke. Then run svn up --set-depth=immediates with <CodeBaseRoot>/Spoke URL. Now the set-depth=immediates option is used as this will checkout empty directories of all spoke directories.

d) Assume you are working only in project Spoke m. Run cd Spoke m. Then run svn up --set-depth=infinity with <CodeBaseRoot>/Spoke/Spoke m URL. This will checkout the whole spoke m project.

Hopefully this helps.