going back in time with the ports tree

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On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:48:33 -0600
Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:

> im trying to figure out how to go back in time on my ports tree.  im
> sure ive seen instructions on how to do this before, but for the life
> of me, i cant find the doc now.  i would like to get a copy of ports
> from right before php-5.2.0 was committed.
> 
> can anyone point me in the right direction?

You can set a date in the ports' cvsup file like this

*default release=cvs tag=. date=<date>

See cvsup(1) for the date format