I want to check out a specific commit of code from github using svn:externals. It's easy to check out the trunk (discussed here), as shown in this svn:externals entry example:
https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git yaml-cpp
To check out code from a Subversion repository you would create a svn:externals entry that looks something like (using the peg revision syntax in red book):
http://svn.example.com/code@<revision> code
This won't work, since it is not a Subversion repository I'm trying to check out. Using the accepted answer from a previous question also does not seem to work for a SVN check out from github:
https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git@<sha1> yaml-cpp