How to check out a deleted project from an SVN on

Question

I'm trying to checkout a project that was deleted from my SVN in revision 401. The project is now defunct and had been completely replaced with a rewrite of the code, but I'd like to do a checkout so that I can refer back to small pieces of the old code while working on the rewrite.

As far as I can tell, this should be as simple as checking out the old path and the last good revision (400). But when I try this I get an error, because it's trying to use the latest revision:

C:\Users\couling\workspace>svn checkout --revision=400 https://svn.domain.com/repos/trunk/OldProject
Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.domain.com:443':
 - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the
   fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!
Certificate information:
 - Hostname: svn.domain.com
 - Valid: from Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:03:33 GMT until Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:03:33 GMT
 - Issuer: Personal Certificate, Foomy Whatsit, Blah, Blah, GB
 - Fingerprint: 01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:10:11:12:13:14:15:16:17:18:19:20
(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? t
svn: '/repos/!svn/bc/1418/trunk/OldProject' path not found

C:\Users\couling\workspace>

I can easily browse to the folder at revision 400 through a web browser so in the worst case I can still view the code, but I'd prefer to have a copy of all the source files to hand for my IDE.

For reference I'm using this version of the client:

C:\Users\couling\workspace>svn --version
svn, version 1.6.16 (r1073529)
   compiled Mar  8 2011, 11:47:41

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

How do I check out a folder that has now been deleted?

Edit

For the removal of doubt.... The checkout command above uses the syntax --revision=400 as this happened to be the last way I wrote the command before posting. This is valid syntax given that the svn command uses a library compatible with the GNU getopt_long. The version I use does and the following are all synonymous -r 400 -r400 --revision 400 --revision=400. The different variants are all reduced to a single result by the getopt library.

As it happens the reason that was the last command I used before posting was that I went through all variants to confirm it was not related to this issue. They all had the same result.

Answer 1

svn co --depth=infinity https://svn.domain.com/repos/trunk/OldProject@400

See "SVNBook | Peg and Operative Revisions".

Answer 2

1. When you use Operative Revision, you have to write it with space: -r 400
2. You can use PEG-revision un URL instead of OR: https://svn.domain.com/repos/trunk/OldProject@400
3. In order to perform operation without user-intervention (for cert) you can add to command

... --non-interactive --trust-server-cert

Samples

because OP insists insists on being right instead of RTFM and try

Precondition: http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/branches/Greetings doesn't exist in current HEAD, but was in r16

svn co -r 16 http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/branches/Greetings
svn: E160013: '/svn/Hello/!svn/rvr/37/branches/Greetings' path not found

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svn co http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/branches/Greetings@16
A    Greetings\Hello.txt
 U   Greetings
Checked out revision 16.

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svn co -r=16 http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/branches/
svn: E205000: Syntax error in revision argument '=16'

• According to last comment I had to get HEAD of /branches, but

>dir /b

Greetings