Re: Rollback ports to before mate update

From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:55:59 UTC
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 3:20 PM Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:

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> On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 19:15 Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 17:23 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Mate was updated to 1.26 and it blew up on me. I have no usable desktop
>>> and
>>> want to rollback my git clone of ports to its state yesterday. I have the
>>> commit hash fron yesterday morning, but I'm not sure how to get there. I
>>> really hate to completely blow my ports tree.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing "git reset" might be what I'm looking for, but I'm far from
>>> sure. Help!
>>>
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>> I think you can accomplish that by going to /usr/ports and run:
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>> git checkout hash-of-the-commit
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>>
> Forgot to mention that I did that 2 days ago to downgrade harfbuzz from
> 3.0.0 to 2.9.1 because of chromium.
>
Thanks!

To avoid any risk of damage, I cloned a new copy into another directory and
did the checkout. I'm back in business and will open an issue with the
update to mate.
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