On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Christian Bird wrote:
> I'm trying to study the evolution of ant and I'm doing checkouts of
> ant's svn repo in three month increments. I have been checking out
> with:
>
> svn co --revision {2008-7-1}
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/ foobar
>
> For appropriate dates. This seems to work until I get before
> 2006-1-1. If I give it any date prior to that, I get the repo as of
> that date. I know by browsing their repo online, that changes were
> being made prior to that.
> Also, I can browse the online ant repo and find the revision closest
> to a date I want and check it out by revision number and things work
> correctly. So if I do
>
> svn co --revision 320000 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/
> trunk/ foobar2
>
> Then it checks out correctly the repository for the revision 320000 at
> the date that is indicated by browsing the online repo. I could try
> to find a way to find the actual revision number associated with each
> date, but I'd really like to specify a date for checkout and have it
> work correctly. Has anyone seen anything like this before? I'd
> really appreciate any tips/hints/etc.
>
> I'm using svn 1.5.2 in case that helps. Thanks!
It seems to be working for me, also with Subversion 1.5.2, on Mac OS
X 10.4.11:
$ svn log -q -r {2006-6-1} http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r410747 | crossley | 2006-05-31 23:56:36 -0500 (Wed, 31 May 2006)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ svn log -q -r {2006-5-1} http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r398522 | jsisson | 2006-04-30 23:32:48 -0500 (Sun, 30 Apr 2006)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ svn log -q -r {2006-4-1} http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r390592 | crossley | 2006-03-31 23:58:40 -0600 (Fri, 31 Mar 2006)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ svn log -q -r {2006-3-1} http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r381913 | rahul | 2006-02-28 23:32:26 -0600 (Tue, 28 Feb 2006)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ svn log -q -r {2006-2-1} http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
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r374002 | richter | 2006-01-31 23:51:36 -0600 (Tue, 31 Jan 2006)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ svn log -q -r {2006-1-1} http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf
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r365270 | arminw | 2005-12-31 13:07:20 -0600 (Sat, 31 Dec 2005)
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$
The only reason I know of for the date revision syntax to give
incorrect results is if the revisions of the repository are not all
in chronological order. This could happen, for example, if one were
to "svnadmin load" another repository into the repository. I do not
know if this is the case for the ASF repository.
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Received on 2008-10-01 22:05:29 CEST