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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Ben Collins <bc...@debian.org> on 2003/06/16 18:04:29 UTC

Re: how to grab a single file revision from a repository?

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 12:05:10PM -0700, sjohnson wrote:
> Is there a way to grab an arbitrary revision of a single file from a
> repository without having to have a working copy of the directory that
> contains the file, or at least without having to effect the current
> state of the working directory.  What I'm looking for, I suppose, is a
> replacement for cvs update's -p option.
>  
> I was hoping that 'svn export' would let me grab a single file, but it
> apprears to only work on collections.  

svn cat -r REV URL > file

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