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Scenario: Students have access to a subfolder in an SVN repository where they will check in the solutions to their assignments.

The assignments have a fixed deadline (e.g. Tuesday, 12:00).

It is possible that students change the files after this deadline.

Question: Is there a convenient way to update my working copy to include all commits up to specified datetime?

My approach: So far, i looked at the log and figured out what the last commit before the deadline was. Then i remember that commit's revision number and update my working copy to that state with svn up -rNNN. But I'm sure there's a better way to do that.

Any tips are greatly appreciated.

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You can use { DATE } in your revision (-r). For example if you want status at 2017-11-06 date (today) you can use svn update -r "{2017-11-06}". You can be more precise, see Revision Specifiers/Revision Dates:

$ svn update -r {2006-02-17}
$ svn update -r {15:30}
$ svn update -r {15:30:00.200000}
$ svn update -r {"2006-02-17 15:30"}
$ svn update -r {"2006-02-17 15:30 +0230"}
$ svn update -r {2006-02-17T15:30}
$ svn update -r {2006-02-17T15:30Z}
$ svn update -r {2006-02-17T15:30-04:00}
$ svn update -r {20060217T1530}
$ svn update -r {20060217T1530Z}
$ svn update -r {20060217T1530-0500}
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  • ah. i checked the man page and saw the date option, however I did not realise that this meant the whole datetime string. Thanks a lot.
    – benny
    Commented Nov 6, 2017 at 19:54

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