Re: Emacs seems awfully unstable on OS X lately

[Óscar Fuentes]

Harald Hanche-Olsen <address@hidden> writes:

> ACtually, I could a bit of help with that: Since I have a range of
> more than 500 revisions to bisect, I think the most efficient
> procedure would be to create a branch that is identical to trunk
> except that revision 109470 is not applied, and then to bisect that.
> But I don't understand bzr well enought to know how to do that. Can
> someone tell me a good way to do it?

AFAIK there is no simple way of doing that. It is possible with
exporting/filtering/importing (which is quite time-demanding). It could
be done too by branching at revision 109469 and
then patching the working copy with 109471, committing, patching with
109472, committing... all done by a script, of course.

But IMO the easier way is to create a reverse patch for 109470, start
with the bisection as usual and, on each test, before building emacs,
apply the patch if the revision being tested comes after 109470, then
clean the working copy for undoing your patching and continue bisecting.