How can I checkout a specific revision of my svn codebase using git svn

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I am trying to checkout a specific revsion of my svn codebase. Normally, to checkout, I just type
git svn clone svn+ssh://path_to_codebase. I need to checkout an older version of the codebase. How do I do that?

Ben Jackson · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-06 02:41:52Z

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I used the following and I obtained an older revision.

git checkout `git svn find-rev revision_number`

Does anyone have any comments about this?

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Ben Jackson · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-04 00:14:45Z

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You can git svn clone it as usual and then use the usual tools -- git checkout can give you access in a "floating" way or create a new git branch at your desired point.

You can also use git svn init (note it behaves slightly differently than git init) and then git svn fetch -r XXX to fetch a specific revision. This is much faster if the repository is large, but a future git svn fetch will fetch the rest of the revs (but never any earlier revs).

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