Re: fetching older repo snapshots

On Sep 13, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.tour.history.html:
>
> "In addition to all of the previous commands, you can use svn
> update and svn checkout with the --revision option to take an
> entire working copy ?back in time?: [7]
>
> $ svn checkout -r 1729 # Checks out a new working copy at r1729
> ?
> $ svn update -r 1729 # Updates an existing working copy to r1729
> ?
> "
>
> first, are those two variations exactly equivalent? is there a
> reason to choose one over the other?

"svn checkout" checks out a new working copy.
"svn update" updates an existing working copy.

> also, if they're equivalent, i suspect the wording "you can use svn
> update and svn checkout with the --revision option ..." should be
> changed to "you can use svn update ***or*** svn checkout with the --
> revision option ...", lest newbies get the impression that they
> need to invoke both for some reason.

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Received on 2008-09-14 01:14:45 CEST