28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
7:46 p.m.
That is where I'm confused. I _do_ want to delete
all
commits more recent than the date to which I reset.
Otherwise I am building packages with the same current
sources. I won't accomplish anything. I am looking for a way
to reset my local repo to commit xxxxxxxx and delete all
commits after that date. The final result is a local repo
that looks exactly as GIT did on the day of commit
xxxxxxxx.
I want to do this to troubleshoot a difficult bug. After
installing a GIT package set from several months ago, I know
the bug did not exist then. Something happened thereafter. I
want to build packages from my local repo but the sources
must look exactly the same as whatever date I choose.
I want to start as far back as April 1 and then proceed
forward until the bug reappears.
When I do a git log I want the sources to actually reflect
the state of that date and not the illusion of that date. I
need to do this to the whole repo and not just a specific
package module.
Does anybody know how to do this?
The root problem is commits are module based. The Trinity GIT repo consists of more than
110 modules. To my knowledge there is no easy one-step 'git reset --hard {commit}'
option available to revert an entire local Trinity repo to a previous state because commit
hashes are not common among all Trinity modules.
Everything I read online addresses using 'git reset --hard {commit}' but is always
focused on projects with only one repo. The Trinity repo is really 110+ repos.
The only option I see thus far is writing a script to query each Trinity module for the
last commit on a specific date and have the script perform a 'git reset --hard
{commit}' for each module.
Is there a way to perform 'git reset --hard' based on date rather than commit?
The 'git log --until" command queries the last commit on a specific date. I
don't know how to extract the commit hash from that query.
To troubleshoot regressions, a future solution probably creates and archives a set of
tarball snapshots with each resync of the local repo.
Darrell