On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 20:18 +0200, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi Craig, > > Craig L Russell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to do, but if you want to > > check out a specific revision, the svn command has a parameter checkout > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] that allows you to specify which revision you want to > > check out. > > We were discussing to use svn:externals to drag a specific revision > from a different tree (trunk) into a live branch. I only remembered > that one specifies a URL to the referenced tree. But it is actually > possible and encouraged to specify a revision as well: > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.externals.html
sounds good an example of the syntax is rat -r672912 http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/rat/main/trunk/scan/src/main thanks - robert
