How to Download Google Code

Posted in: Computers

Date: October 14, 2009

Step by Step Instructions

You may have been to Google Code and seen something like this under source tab:

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

To download the code, first install tortoisesvn, or any other svn client.  Here is a list of popular ones.

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Once tortoisesvn is installed, go to Windows Explorer and create a new folder where you want to download the code.

Right click and select 'Repo-browser'

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Put in the URL. In this case it is: 'http://project.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ project-read-only'

Navigate to the desired file. Right click and select 'Save as…'

Tortoise SVN Repo Browser How To Image

Select the download location, and you're good to go.

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