Re: Newbie Checkout Question

Phil,

        Thanks,

                I will investigate both options.

Scot

"Phil Endecott" <spam_from_subversion_users@chezphil.org>
04/11/2006 11:14 AM

 
        To: ScotDiddle@Overnite.com, users@subversion.tigris.org
        cc:
        Subject: Re: Newbie Checkout Question

ScotDiddle@Overnite.com wrote:
> I'm working along, and find I need to get an old version
of a
> specific file...
>
> As I understand it, checkout rev -x will check out the
whole
> repository to a "new" working directory, at level -x.
>
> Whereas I have a large repoitory, this takes a while.

"svn cat" might be useful.

If you want to revert a file in your working copy back to an old state,
"svn merge" with a reverse range is what you want; this must be an example
in the book.

--Phil.

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