How to integrate SVN into ANT

Here’s an easy way to checkout code from a Subversion repository (or do any Subversion related task) using Ant.

After you have Ant installed, you’ll need a SVN command line client. You can download a program like Slik SVN for this functionality. After you have both Ant and SVN working. You can do something like this…

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="MyProject" basedir=".">
  <description>
    This build file will check out your code from a SVN repository.
  </description>

  <exec executable="svn">
    <arg line="checkout http://www.example.com/svn/project/
       --username test --password password"/>
  </exec>
</project>

That’s all there is to it. Check out the Subversion Complete Reference for all the SVN commmands.