How to checkout and build magnolia sources - Community Wiki

At the moment it is a bit complicated and definitively not straightforward process.

Perhaps the best way is to:

mkdir magnolia
cd magnolia
svn checkout http://svn.magnolia.info/svn/community/magnolia/trunk/ magnolia
svn -N checkout http://svn.magnolia.info/svn/community/modules/ magnolia
cd magnolia
./checkout.sh
cd ..
mkdir enterprise
cd enterprise
svn checkout http://svn.magnolia.info/svn/enterprise/magnolia-enterprise/trunk/ magnolia-enterprise
./magnolia-enterprise/checkout.sh

If you are on windows it should be enough to rename checkout.sh to checkout.cmd to make it work there.
By executing the above you should end up with structure like follows:

/magnolia
 /magnolia
  /<core magnolia + community modules>
 /enterprise
  /<enterprise magnolia + enterprise modules>

With that in place you should be good to go for maven build.

cd magnolia/magnolia
mvn install
cd ../enterprise
mvn install

After having build all core parts of the CE and Enterprise edition you can go into any of the optional modules directories and build those as well.