title: How to exclude a folder in svn checkout in maven?
body: <p>Im using maven to checkout some projects. I don't want maven to checkout a folder. But it seems to ignore the excludes tag in configuration.</p>
  
  <p>This is the svn structure:</p>
  
  <pre>
  trunk/  
  |-- folder_to_include  
  `-- folder_to_ignore  
  </pre>
  
  <p>And here it goes a sample of the pom.xml:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;execution&gt;  
    &lt;id&gt;checkout_application&lt;/id&gt;  
    &lt;configuration&gt;  
      &lt;connectionUrl&gt;hostname&lt;/connectionUrl&gt;  
      &lt;checkoutDirectory&gt;checkout_folder&lt;/checkoutDirectory&gt;  
      &lt;excludes&gt;folder_to_ignore&lt;/excludes&gt;  
    &lt;/configuration&gt;  
    &lt;phase&gt;process-resources&lt;/phase&gt;  
    &lt;goals&gt;  
       &lt;goal&gt;checkout&lt;/goal&gt;  
    &lt;/goals&gt;  
  &lt;/execution&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>