On Mon, Jun 2, 2025, 5:18 PM Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 03:44:37PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 03:35:50PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > ... > > > How does one use dates to checkout a particular head? > > > If I'm at the top of HEAD and need to got back to > > > mid-february, what's the easiest option for performing > > > a bisection by hand? > > > > > > > Maybe someone else will have a better idea, but you could: > > > > * Examine (say) > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-main/2025-February/date.html > , > > filtering out the "replies" to find git commit hashes. > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Unfortunately, this is what I feared. Suppose I find > commit hash abcdef for 20250215 and hash ghijkl for > 20250315, i.e, the 2 commits roughly a month apart. > I can do > > % git checkout abcdef > > Now, I do the usual buildworld/installworld including > the etcupdate steps. I need to rebuild drm-515-kmod > port. Test to see if drm works again, > > % git checkout main (to recover the main branch). > % git checkout ghijkl > > Repeat the world dance. > Yes. That will work. It will create a detached tree, but that's fine. You can also do git bisect too. Warner -- > Steve > >
