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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:58:46 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reverting -current by date.
Message-ID:  <4231df3f594826479e451a69da4fafb17b4aeea4.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20191120173853.GB311@www.zefox.net>
References:  <20191120173853.GB311@www.zefox.net>

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On Wed, 2019-11-20 at 09:38 -0800, bob prohaska wrote:
> From time to time it would be handy to revert freebsd-current to
> an older, well-behaved revision. 
> 
> Is there a mechanism for identifying revision numbers that
> will at least compile and boot, by date? 
> 
> In my case buildworld seems to be markedly slower than, say,
> six months ago. Maybe it's hardware, maybe something else. Is
> there a way to pick a revision number to revert to, that's
> better than merely guessing? 
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> 
> bob prohaska
> 

svn update -r "{date}" 

The curly braces indicate you're specifying a date, which can be in a
large variety of typical formats, details here:

 http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.tour.revs.specifiers.html

Curly braces are significant in some shells, so the quotes may be
required.

-- Ian





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