rust-lang / rust-lang/rustup

Feature Request: rustup revert

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Description

When using nightly occasionally updating to a new nightly will cause breakage of things. This then means you need to spend the time finding the last known date it worked with, which depending on how often you update could be a week or month ago when it last worked, then install that specific version and override the directory with the working version.

It would be nice from a usability standpoint to be able to just run a simple command to set the nightly to the last known working version installed on the computer.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing rustup's existing command and toolchain-selection behavior; done means a defined command can select the last known working installed nightly, with coverage for the requested workflow.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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