<AWT Dev> debugging a regression

[Pete Brunet]

Thanks Vadim, I'll give it a try.  -Pete

On 6/28/15 3:24 PM, Vadim Pakhnushev wrote:
> Pete,
>
> Actually you should use hg bisect command to do this.
> First, you mark 2 revisions you now as bad and good, like this:
> hg bisect --good jdk9-b67
> hg bisect --bad tip
> The last command will bisect the list of changesets and update the
> repo to some changeset in between.
> Then you build the repo, test it and mark it as either bad or good:
> hg bisect --bad
> This will advance the current changeset and you test it again until
> you arrive at the 'first bad' changeset.
> See here for reference: https://www.selenic.com/hg/help/bisect
>
> Hope this helps,
> Vadim
>
> On 28.06.2015 18:15, Pete Brunet wrote:
>> Looks like I can use hg update to accomplish this, i.e. hg update to the
>> rev that is b67 and then hg update to each possibly offending rev of the
>> jdk repo.  Sound right?
>>
>> On 6/26/15 4:13 PM, Pete Brunet wrote:
>>> Hi, I found a problem on b68 and there are a half dozen possible
>>> changesets that could be responsible.  What is the best way to do the
>>> process of elimination.  It seems like the right approach would be to
>>> start with b67 and then add changesets one at a time until the problem
>>> surfaces.  Is that right or is there a better way?
>>>
>>> Starting with a fresh current clone what are the steps to strip back to
>>> b67 and then to add changesets?
>>>
>>> This will be in the jdk branch of the forest.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Pete
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