[Python-Dev] Subversion repository question - back up to older versions

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
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