On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Andrew Berry <andrewbe...@sentex.net> wrote: > On 2009-11-25, at 9:49 PM, Dave Cohen wrote: > >> Finally, I use svn:externals. > > Has anyone ever figured out a way to make svn:externals "sticky" a revision > for production branches? The biggest issue I had with it was that there was > no way to easily fetch the state of the project at a given revision, as > externals just point to the HEAD of a path.
You can specify a specific revision by appending @1234 to the external URI or adding -r1234 before the external URI external definition. The syntax changed (or was extended) in version 1.5. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html for details. -Craig