What does SVN checkout do?

Question

Does "SVN" checkout put a build.xml file within the folder that is chosen?

Currently, I do not have permissions to the SVN repository. So I thought that I might just skip the SVN checkout step and proceed with the build. But I am getting an error that says Build.xml file does not exist. Is this build.xml file provided once the SVN checkout is performed?

Answer 1

svn checkout checks out (retrieves) a working copy of the repository into the specified folder. If you don't have access to the repository, and there's not already a current copy of the source in the folder, you can't possibly do a build.

If there is a current copy of the source there, it should include build.xml.

If you had access to the repository, svn checkout would only retrieve a copy of build.xml if there was one in the repository for the copy being checked out. In other words, it won't magically add a build.xml if one doesn't exist in the repository.