Subclipse and svn command-line client interaction....

Howdy,
In playing around with Subclipse, I have a large (2GB) source tree with a
maven run java segment inside it. I'd like to checkout/update the entire
branch locally, and then has eclipse lock on to my java segment making it an
eclipse project with SVN integration. I cannot figure out how to do it.
 
If I do a Check-Out-As... then I get a failure if I try to check out the
java source via Subclipse over the java source I obtained via the svn
command-line client.
 
All that seems possible is for me to do the following
1. Obtain source via command line to path
svn co <repos>/branch/big project /local-workspace/projecta
2. Using eclipse Check out as to path not within the first
e.g., /local-workspace/projecta-javaOnly
 
 
This doesn't seem all that great because some of my unit tests may depend on
the java segment being located in its proper place within the larger branch
space.
 
 
Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks
 
 

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Peter Kahn
pkahn@connected.com