How to get from SVN the previous revision before the HEAD?

Question

I have the latest revision checked out to my working copy, but it's broken - it can't compiled.

How to get the previous revision before the head? And if it's broken too - the previous before the previous?

Answer 1

svn update -r PREV

Here's a link to the documentation on revision keywords.

If none of the keywords (HEAD, BASE, COMMITTED, or PREV) is exactly what you want, then just look in the log and find an explicit revision number to update to.