title: SVN list directories without having the latest checkout?
body: <p>The command <code>svn list</code> will give me list of all the sub directories in the present directory.
  However,it is only restricted to directories which are present in current version.</p>
  
  <p>eg. say repository url is :</p>
  
  <p>"http://www.example.com/svncode/mainproduct/trunk"
  and inside trunk, there are 3 directories</p>
  
  <pre><code>trunk/
       1/
       2/
       3/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I do <code>svn list</code> it will show me all the directories <code>1 2 3</code> .
  Now somebody else does a commit in trunk, which adds another directory <code>4</code> inside trunk.
  Is there a way to check existence of that directory without first taking an update ? As <code>svn list</code> only provides information till latest <code>svn update</code> , not about changes that happened after that .</p>
  
  <p><strong>Background</strong> : I want to retreive the latest directory present inside trunk ( largest number means latest, 4 in this case), and want to checkout only that part of the trunk codebase, not full trunk .</p>