Subject: Re: bug#15404: Mitigating "make bootstrap" trashing the tree

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:25:03 +0300

> From: William G. Gardella <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:16:10 +0000
> 
> One suggestion to help avoid "make bootstrap" trashing the source tree
> and your old emacs build would be to use "bzr stash" to make a
> temporary, local copy of your previous build.

I guess you mean "bzr shelve".  But that would only stash away
versioned files that were locally modified, so I expect it to do
nothing in a bound branch that doesn't have any local changes.

Making a local branch is probably what you had in mind.