How do I view an older version of an SVN file

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I have an SVN file which is now missing some logic and so I need to go back about 40 revisions to the time when it had the logic I need  Other than trying to view a diff of the file in the command line  very hard to read   is there any way I could get a copy of that file to review so I can study it to recover parts

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Using the latest versions of Subclipse  you can actually view them without using the cmd prompt  On the file  simply right-click    Team    Switch to another branch tag revision  Besides the revision field  you click select  and you ll see all the versions of that file

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You can update to an older revision   svn update -r 666 file   Or you can just view the file directly   svn cat -r 666 file   less

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To directly answer the question of how to  get a copy of that file    svn cat -r 666 file  gt  file r666   then you can view the newly created file r666 with any viewer or comparison program  e g   kompare file r666 file   nicely shows the differences   I posted the answer because the accepted answer s commands do actually not give a copy of the file and because svn cat -r 666 file   vim does not work with my system  Vim  Error reading input  exiting

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It is also interesting to compare the file of the current working revision with the same file of another revision    You can do as follows     svn diff -r34 file

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Update to a specific revision   svn up -r1234 file

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I believe the best way to view revisions is to use a program app that makes it easy for you   I like to use trac   http   trac edgewall org wiki TracSubversion  It provides a great svn browser and makes it really easy to go back through your revisions   It may be a little overkill to set this up for one specific revision you want to check  but it could be useful if you re going to do this a lot in the future

[svn] How do I view an older version of an SVN file?

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