Checkout a specific revision from SVN from the command line

Posted on 23rd May 2012

How to checkout a specific revision from a SVN (Subversion) repository.

If you're checking out the repository for the first time:

$ svn checkout -r 1234 url://repository/path

If you already have the repository checked out:

$ svn up -r 1234

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