[svn] How to checkout a specific Subversion revision from the command line?

I want to checkout a specific revision of a folder in Subversion using the command line.

I don't see an option for specifying the revision number in TortoiseProc.exe,

TortoiseProc.exe /command:checkout <url>

How do I get the revision I want? Is TortoiseProc.exe the right tool for what I want to do?

Any reason for using TortoiseProc instead of just the normal svn command line?

I'd use:

svn checkout svn://somepath@1234 working-directory

(to get revision 1234)

You'll have to use svn directly:

svn checkout URL[@REV]... [PATH]

and

svn help co

gives you a little more help.

You should never use TortoiseProc.exe as a command-line Subversion client! TortoiseProc should be utilized only for automating TortoiseSVN's GUI. See the note in TortoiseSVN's Manual:

Remember that TortoiseSVN is a GUI client, and this automation guide shows you how to make the TortoiseSVN dialogs appear to collect user input. If you want to write a script which requires no input, you should use the official Subversion command line client instead.

Use the Subversion command-line svn.exe client. With the command-line client, you can

• checkout a working copy in REV revision:

  1. svn checkout --revision REV https://svn.example.com/svn/MyRepo/trunk/

  2. svn checkout https://svn.example.com/svn/MyRepo/trunk/@REV

• update your local working copy to REV revision:

  svn update --revision REV

• export (i.e. download) a file or a development branch in REV revision:

  1. svn export --revision REV https://svn.example.com/svn/MyRepo/trunk/

  2. svn export https://svn.example.com/MyRepo/trunk/@REV

You may notice that with svn checkout and svn export you can enter REV number as --revision REV argument and as trailing @REV after URL. The first one is called operative revision, and the second one is called peg revision. Read SVNBook for more information about peg and operative revisions concept.

It seems that you can use the repository browser. Click the revision button at top-right and change it to the revision you want. Then right-click your file in the browser and use 'Copy to working copy...' but change the filename it will check out, to avoid a clash.

Either

svn checkout url://repository/path@1234

or

svn checkout -r 1234 url://repository/path

I believe the syntax for this is /rev:<revisionNumber>

Documentation for this can be found here

svn checkout to revision where your repository is on another server

Use svn log command to find out which revisions are available:

svn log

Which prints:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r762 | machines | 2012-12-02 13:00:16 -0500 (Sun, 02 Dec 2012) | 2 lines

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r761 | machines | 2012-12-02 12:59:40 -0500 (Sun, 02 Dec 2012) | 2 lines

Note the number r761. Here is the command description:

svn export http://url-to-your-file@761 /tmp/filename

I used this command specifically:

svn export svn+ssh://[email protected]/home1/oct/calc/calcFeatures.m@761 calcFeatures.m

Which causes calcFeatures.m revision 761 to be checked out to the current directory.

Go to folder and use the command:

svn co {url}

If you already have it checked out locally then you can cd to where it is checked out, then use this syntax:

$ svn up -rXXXX

ref: Checkout a specific revision from subversion from command line

You could try

TortoiseProc.exe /command:checkout /rev:1234

to get revision 1234.

I'm not 100% sure the /rev option is compatible with checkout, but I got the idea from some TortoiseProc documentation.