On 19 June 2013 03:54, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:27:40 +0100
> > From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
> >       Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> >       Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> >
> > > Why not
> > >
> > > rm -rf /path/to/emacs/
> > > bzr branch ...
> > >
> > > It's the only way to be _really_ sure. ;)
> > >
> >
> > That's ok if you don't mind waiting all week.
>
> ??? "bzr branch" is a local operation in this case, which takes about
> 20 seconds on my XP machine.
>

"rm -rf /path/to/emacs" deletes my entire local repository, because I've
been doing it all wrong, as recommended here:
  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsCasualDevs#toc2