| brew update | |
| brew versions FORMULA | |
| cd `brew --prefix` | |
| git checkout HASH Library/Formula/FORMULA.rb # use output of "brew versions" | |
| brew install FORMULA | |
| brew switch FORMULA VERSION | |
| git checkout -- Library/Formula/FORMULA.rb # reset formula | |
| ## Example: Using Subversion 1.6.17 | |
| # | |
| # $ brew versions subversion | |
| # 1.7.3 git checkout f8bf2f3 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.7.2 git checkout d89bf83 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.17 git checkout 6e2d550 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.16 git checkout 83ed494 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.15 git checkout 809a18a /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.13 git checkout 7871a99 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.12 git checkout c99b3ac /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.6 git checkout 8774131 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.5 git checkout a82e823 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # 1.6.3 git checkout 6b6d369 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # $ cd `brew --prefix` | |
| # $ git checkout 6e2d550 /usr/local/Library/Formula/subversion.rb | |
| # $ brew install subversion | |
| # $ brew switch subversion 1.6.17 | |
| # $ git checkout -- Library/Formula/subversion.rb |
great! Thanks!
awesome!! thank you!!
Perfect, thanks.
That' was perfect! The step cd brew --prefix saves my life! :D thanks
Very helpful, thank you!
Very useful for downgrading svn! What does the "brew switch" command do?
I upgraded tmux from 1.6 to 1.8 and things suddenly stop to work, so I did not need to install it again since it was already installed , so to downgrade :
brew switch tmux 1.6Thank you for the gist !
@jonmcewen -- brew switch appears to simply update the symlink in /usr/local/bin to the specified formula version in the Cellar.
when i brew update
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
Library/Formula/subversion.rb
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
Aborting
Error: Failure while executing: git pull -q origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
Dude nice! I had 404 from all old versions of SVN but was able to manually drop in 1.7.11 into the svn folder and homebrew picked it up.
git checkout -- Library/Formula/FORMULA.rb this line is not working. I have to replace the -- with the hash of latest commit to get this work
I created a function version https://gist.github.com/rainchen/6363948
usage example:
$ brew-install ssh-copy-id 6.0p1
Works perfectly! Thx!
When trying to install subversion 1.7.x, I got "Error: No available formula for serf". The workaround was:
$ brew tap homebrew/versions
$ brew install subversion17
as mentioned here. To switch back and forth between the two, you can use brew unlink and brew link.
awesome, thanks!