Re: Problem with svn checkout url@rev

On Apr 13, 2006, at 16:10, Yves Bergeron wrote:

> I'm using Subversion 1.3.1 (server on Solaris 9; client 1.3.0 on
> Windows) and today I noticed what seems to be a bug.
>
> When I do a svn checkout http://serveur:port/svn/repos --revision
> 123, I get what I want. That is revision 123 of my repository.
>
> When I do a svn checkout http://serveur:port/svn/repos@123, I
> always get the head revision.
>
> What is strange is that the command seems to check if the specified
> revision exists before extracting the head revision. If I do a svn
> checkout http://serveur:port/svn/repos/sub-dir@n, if sub-dir
> doesn't exist for the revision n, there is an error. If it exists,
> I get the head revision.
>
> So, is it me or is there really a bug ?

As far as I can tell, you're describing exactly how Subversion is
designed to behave. Have you read about the difference between peg
and operative revisions and what they're each for?

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html

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Received on Thu Apr 13 16:34:08 2006