title: Maintaining repository directory structure locally for large project
body: <p>As answered in this post, SVN does not offer an option for checking out only the directory structure of a repository:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/537234/svn-checkout-export-only-the-directory-structure">SVN: Checkout/export only the directory structure</a></p>
  
  <p>We have a very large repository and would like to maintain just the repository structure locally to simplify checking out parts of the project.</p>
  
  <p>Is there another version control system which does suit this use case?</p>