How can I do a partial update (i.e., get isolated changesets) from subversion with subclipse?

Question

If a file is committed several times with various changes, how can I fetch one change at a time, i.e., one changeset at a time?

I use eclipse, subversion, and subclipse, and I can't change the former two for the time being (or the MS platform..).

In my Team/Synchronization view in eclipse (using subclipse), choosing the changeset model, a file seems to be listed only in the latest relevant changeset even if all changesets are listed. So an earlier changeset doesn't necessarily show the full set of files in the original commit, nor the original diff for a file in a commit.

Update: I'm thinking about using changesets for simplified code review, so I'd like the partial update represented for all the files commited in one changeset. It's easy to get diffs and specific revisions for specific files in eclipse, but I'd like to step through all the changes in one specific commit/ changeset in a practical manner.

Answer 1

As I'm sure you know, svn up will by default grab the latest revision of the file.

However, you can use the -r parameter to svn up to grab a particular revision of a file. So if you know a file was committed in revisions 5, 7, and 9, you could do this:

svn up -r5 myfile
svn up -r7 myfile
svn up -r9 myfile

I believe (but I don't have an installation of it in front of me) that Subclipse has a similar option, labeled something like "Update to Revision..."