SVN timing

[Simon Perreault]

On March 23, 2005 17:32, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> loosing "checking out by date" ability. no way to find a commit by date, no
> way to reliably diff  the repository by date.

Why then does "svn help checkout" advertise that ability?

[nomis80 at localhost ~]$ svn help checkout
checkout (co): Check out a working copy from a repository.
usage: checkout URL... [PATH]

  Note: If PATH is omitted, the basename of the URL will be used as
  the destination. If multiple URLs are given each will be checked
  out into a sub-directory of PATH, with the name of the sub-directory
  being the basename of the URL.

Valid options:
  -r [--revision] arg      : ARG (some commands also take ARG1:ARG2 range)
                             A revision argument can be one of:
                                NUMBER       revision number
            HERE =====>         "{" DATE "}" revision at start of the date
                                "HEAD"       latest in repository
                                "BASE"       base rev of item's working copy
                                "COMMITTED"  last commit at or before BASE
                                "PREV"       revision just before COMMITTED
  -q [--quiet]             : print as little as possible
  -N [--non-recursive]     : operate on single directory only
  --username arg           : specify a username ARG
  --password arg           : specify a password ARG
  --no-auth-cache          : do not cache authentication tokens
  --non-interactive        : do no interactive prompting
  --config-dir arg         : read user configuration files from directory ARG

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