How to download/checkout a project from Google Code in Windows?

How do I download a ZIP file of an entire project from Google Code when there are no prepared downloads available?

This is what I see on the checkout page:

Command-line access
Use this command to anonymously check out the latest project source code:

svn checkout http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ myproject-read-only 

But I'm working on Windows and I don't have the svn binaries ... do I need these?

I can access individual source code file or view the Subversion HTML pages, but that just allows me to access source code files one-by-one.

Solution 1:

If you don't want to install anything but do want to download an SVN or GIT repository, then you can use this: http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/

I have nothing to do with this project, but I just used it now and it saved me a few minutes. Maybe it will help someone.

Solution 2:

If you install TortoiseSVN you can use SVN under windows. It also gives you the SVN binaries. You needn't do the checkout from the command-line though as it integrates into Windows Explorer for you.

Solution 3:

If you don't want to install TortoiseSVN, you can simply install 'Subversion for Windows' from here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/

After installing, just open up a command prompt, go the folder you want to download into, then past in the checkout command as indicated on the project's 'source' page. E.g.

svn checkout http://projectname.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ projectname-read-only

Note the space between the URL and the last string is intentional, the last string is the folder name into which the source will be downloaded.

Solution 4:

Thanks Mr. Tom Chantler adding that to get the exe http://downloadsvn.codeplex.com/ to pull the SVN source

just note that suppose you're downloading the below project: you have to enter exactly the following to donwload it in the exe URL:

http://myproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

developer not taking care of appending the h t t p : / / if it does not exist. Hope it saves somebody's time.