With Subversion 1.5 above, users can follow given below steps to checkout file by file or a single file from a svn repository . This is known as "Parse Checkout". 
- svn checkout <svn_directory_location_of_the_file> <file_system_location> --depth empty.
- svn_directory_location_of_the_file :
- file_system_location : To where the checkout should be made to.
             A full example command would be :
     svn checkout https://svn.wso2.org/repos/ source/ --depth empty
- Now go in to the file system location.
- Now svn update the file or directory you want to check out.
