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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