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

Question

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 TortoiseP

Answer 1

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://machines@mywebsite.com/home1/oct/calc/calcFeatures.m@761 calcFeatures.m

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