diff --git a/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy/scm/subversion.rb b/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy/scm/subversion.rb
index 6e9ee38b..4019a306 100644
--- a/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy/scm/subversion.rb
+++ b/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy/scm/subversion.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module Capistrano
         # Returns the command that will do an "svn update" to the given
         # revision, for the working copy at the given destination.
         def sync(revision, destination)
-          scm :update, arguments, arguments(:update), verbose, authentication, "-r#{revision}", destination
+          scm :switch, arguments, verbose, authentication, "-r#{revision}", repository, destination
         end
 
         # Returns the command that will do an "svn export" of the given revision
diff --git a/test/deploy/scm/subversion_test.rb b/test/deploy/scm/subversion_test.rb
index 26d1047c..2f83b895 100644
--- a/test/deploy/scm/subversion_test.rb
+++ b/test/deploy/scm/subversion_test.rb
@@ -29,4 +29,12 @@ Last Changed Date: 2009-03-11 11:04:25 -0700 (Wed, 11 Mar 2009)
     end
     assert_equal 2095, revision
   end
+
+  def test_sync
+    @config[:repository] = "http://svn.github.com/capistrano/capistrano.git"
+    rev = '602'
+    dest = "/var/www"
+    assert_equal "svn switch -q  -r602 http://svn.github.com/capistrano/capistrano.git /var/www", @source.sync(rev, dest)
+  end
+
 end