<AWT Dev> debugging a regression

[Phil Race]

Just be aware that you will need to apply the same to each repo in the 
JDK forest.
Else it will very likely not build. Eg the jdk repo must be in sync with 
the top-level repo.

-phil.

On 6/28/15 5:59 PM, Pete Brunet wrote:
> 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