On 18 June 2013 21:18, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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. I can't see any way
clean/revert/pull/update wouldn't work: the right files (and only the right
files) will be present, with the right contents, and will all be older than
the generated files (since they haven't been generated yet). What else
could possibly go wrong? ;)


> (I'd recommend the standard, documented make bootstrap over either of
> the above methods.)
>

Well yeah, ideally, but it doesn't work. (For me, just now, it hangs after
doing "config.status".)