MPlayer Port Suggestion

[Perry Lee]

Altoine Barker wrote:
> I had discussed with Eric Cronin on this list about using svn source of
> mplayer to build a port. I did some crash reading on svn and to avoid
> the pitfalls of committing an update that will break the port, I
> wondered was it possible to get svn sources by changesets? And if so,

You can use `svn up' to synchronize your working copy to a certain revision.

e.g., `svn up -r 100'

> either of these two command examples. Remember, I did a speedy crash
> course reading
> on svn and that is only because I must run out and I won't be back soon
> but I had to at least share what I have gathered so far before I left. TIA

You should check out http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ -- it's a great read :).