Subversion update externals to a date

Question

I\'m working on a large, established project under SVN control. Many parts of the code base are being checked out as externals, but are being actively worked on by other peo

Answer 1

This is the best solution to the problem I found to date (it's a tricky problem - subversions devs should fix it in the core). This example deals with mplayer in particular but you should easily see the logic.

; fetch the rev I want without including the externals
svn checkout -r "$REV" --ignore-externals \
    svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk

; grab the date of that rev from the svn info output
DATE=`svn info trunk|sed -n '/^Last Changed Date/s/.*: \(.*\) (.*/\1/p'`

; fetch the externals using that date
svn checkout -r "{$DATE}" \
        svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/libavutil \
        svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/libavformat \
        svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/libavcodec \
        svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/libpostproc