From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subtle But Intriguing Bug After restart-emacs and branch cut
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:50:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rjsjpqr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25479.36416.940325.886235@google.com> (raman@google.com)
> From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:09:20 -0800
>
> This is a subtle bug that will likely only happen once each time a new
> branch cut.
>
>
> 1. I was running emacs 29.0.50 built from Git
>
> 2. I did a git pull and rebuild from within that emacs after the
> branch cut and did a make install
>
> 3. I ran restart-emacs in the running emacs-29 it came up and claimed
> to be emacs 29.0.50
>
> 4. I did C-x C-c to kill that emacs, and restarted emacs -- voila it
> claims to be emacs 30.0.50
>
> So -- bug or feature?
You decide. restart-emacs re-execs the same executable as the one in which
you invoke the command. So basically what you see is expected when you
rebuild, I think.
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2022-11-30 17:09 Subtle But Intriguing Bug After restart-emacs and branch cut T.V Raman
2022-11-30 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-11-30 18:39 ` T.V Raman
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