co

Check out RCS revisions (retrieve working files from the Revision Control System). tldr-pages

On several platforms

Several platforms

Check out the latest revision of a file (retrieves a read-only copy)

co path/to/fileIdentify

Check out a file with a lock for editing

co -l path/to/fileIdentify

Check out a specific revision of a file

co -rrevision path/to/fileIdentify

Check out a file and overwrite it if it already exists

co -f -l path/to/fileIdentify

Print a specific revision to stdout without creating a file

co -p -rrevision path/to/fileIdentify