[Python-Dev] Subversion repository question - back up to older versions (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Thu Jun 8 21:26:40 CEST 2006

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Maybe this belongs in the dev faq. I didn't see anything there or in the Subversion book.

I have three Python branches, trunk, release23-maint and release24-maint. In the (for example) release24-maint, what svn up command would I use to get to the 2.4.2 version? In cvs I'd use something like 'cvs up -r r242'. How do I get a list of tags? In cvs I'd do something like 'cvs log | less'.

Second question first:

svn list svn+[ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/tags](https://mdsite.deno.dev/ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/tags)

s/tags/branches/ if you want a list of branches. Note that there's nothing special about tags or branches in SVN -- they're just directories, with agreed-to-by-project-convention names. That's why you don't find any commands that treat tags or branches as distinct concepts.

First question:

cd to the root of your release24-maint checkout, then svn switch svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/tags/r242

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