How to exclude certain directories while using wget?

Question

I'd like to download a directory from a FTP, which contains some source codes. Initially, I did this:

wget -r ftp://path/to/src

Unfortunately, the directory itself is a result of a SVN checkout, so there are lots of .svn directories, and crawling over them would take longer time. Is it possible to exclude those .svn directories?

Answer 1

wget --exclude-directories=.svn -r ftp://path/to/src