Feb 1, 2013

How to download source code from code.google.com

Google host is a good place to manage application source codes and do cooperation work. But it took me quite a while to figure out how to download source codes from there.

For example, when I went to this website to download a plugin to run jetty
http://code.google.com/p/run-jetty-run/source/checkout

It clearly says that user can use a svn command to download the codes:


But in my command line window, it failed like this:

Luckily I found a tool to do this:
http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/

This is the tool and it works perfectly well.

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