On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 08:00:00AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On 6/3/25 02:56, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On 02/06/2025 23:35, 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?
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > git checkout 'main@{2025-02-14 12:00:00}'
> >
> > Or you can say things like:
> >
> > git checkout 'main@{4 months ago}'
> >
> > See git-rev-parse(1)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> Matthew, Warner, Jamie,
>
> Thanks for the pointer for date-based checkouts.
>
> I've read up a bit on 'git bisect' and it was
> not clear to me how to use it. The examples I
> saw appeared to be an automated binary search
> on a single tree. I fear I may need to revert
> src/ and ports/ simultaneously. Using hash
> strings would see to be a path to madness.
>
I've managed to rebuild and re-install world/kernel and gpu-firmware
and drm-515-kmod from git checkout 'main@{2025-03-15 12:00:00}'.
radeonkms.ko loaded as expected and startx brought up the
desktop I was expecting. Onward to next candidate.
--
Steve
