title: svn: how to speedup checkout (selective checkout in svn)?
body: <p>at work we use SVN and trunk contains MANY folders that are used by different developers.
  I work on c++ side of our product and quite often I need to checkout separate copy of our code for various reasons but it takes insane amount of time.
  The problem is that trunk contains many things that I don't need for my c++ part (it contains lots of gui related projects for iPhone, Android that I don't need). SO, is it possible to have some sort of checkout in svn that checks out only certain folders?</p>
  
  <p>I know I can check it out, and then exclude some folders, but can I do it at the beginning so that I wouldn't need to checkout everything?</p>
  
  <p>Is there some svn specific way to make some checkout tags, for example, I could have separate shortcuts for c++, android or iPhone developer so that they don't need to checkout everything and wouldn't need to have some cryptic checkout string that checksout some selected folders only?</p>
  
  <p>(changing svn, reordering structure aren't options)</p>