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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