Subversion Complete Reference
--revision (-r) REV --set-depth ARG
Examples If you're currently inside the directory vendors, which was branched to vendorswith-fix, and you'd like to switch your working copy to that branch: $ svn switch http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/branches/vendors-with-fix . U myproj/foo.txt U myproj/bar.txt U myproj/baz.c U myproj/qux.c Updated to revision 31. To switch back, just provide the URL to the location in the repository from which you originally checked out your working copy: $ svn switch http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/trunk/vendors . U myproj/foo.txt U myproj/bar.txt U myproj/baz.c U myproj/qux.c Updated to revision 31.
You can switch just part of your working copy to a branch if you don't want to switch your entire working copy. Sometimes an administrator might change the location (or apparent location) of your repository—in other words, the content of the repository doesn't change, but the repository's root URL does. For example, the hostname may change, the URL scheme may change, or any part of the URL that leads to the repository itself may change. Rather than check out a new working copy, you can have the svn switch command “rewrite” your working copy's administrative metadata to refer to the new repository location. If you use the --relocate option to svn switch, Subversion will contact the repository to validate the relocation request (looking for the repository at the new URL, of course), and then do this metadata rewriting. No file contents will be changed as the result of this type of switch operation—this is a metadata-only modification to the working copy. $ svn checkout file:///var/svn/repos test A test/a A test/b … $ mv repos newlocation $ cd test/ $ svn update svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL svn: Unable to open repository 'file:///var/svn/repos' $ svn switch --relocate file:///var/svn/repos file:///tmp/newlocation . $ svn update At revision 3.
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