> 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?
git rev-list -1 main '--before=2025-02-17' This will give you the hash of the latest commit before the specified date. I'd use a little script something like this: #!/bin/sh [ -d src/.git ] || git clone --single-branch https://git.freebsd.org/src.git cd src || exit 1 commit="$(git rev-list -1 main --before="$1")" git checkout "$commit" Then if you call it (say) gitbydate, you can use: gitbydate 2025-02-17 gitbydate 2025-02-12 etc... Cheers, Jamie
