svn update — Updates your working copy.
svn update [PATH...]
svn update brings changes from the repository into your working copy. If no revision given, it brings your working copy up-to-date with the HEAD revision. Otherwise, it synchronizes the working copy to the revision given by the --revision switch.
For each updated item a line will start with a character reporting the action taken. These characters have the following meaning:
Added
Deleted
Updated
Conflict
Merged
A character in the first column signifies an update to the actual file, while updates to the file's properties are shown in the second column.
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Working copy
Yes
--revision (-r) REV
--non-recursive (-N)
--quiet (-q)
--diff3-cmd CMD
--username USER
--password PASS
--no-auth-cache
--non-interactive
--config-dir DIR
Pick up repository changes that have happened since your last update:
$ svn update
A newdir/toggle.c
A newdir/disclose.c
A newdir/launch.c
D newdir/README
Updated to revision 32.
You can also update your working copy to an older revision (Subversion doesn't have the concept of “sticky” files like CVS does; see Appendix A):
svn update -r30
A newdir/README
D newdir/toggle.c
D newdir/disclose.c
D newdir/launch.c
U foo.c
Updated to revision 30.
If you want to examine an older revision of a single file, you may want to use svn cat.