Re: Subtle But Intriguing Bug After restart-emacs and branch cut

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:09:20 -0800
> 
> This is a subtle bug that will likely only happen once each time a new
> branch cut.
> 
> 
> 1. I was running emacs 29.0.50 built from Git 
> 
> 2. I did a git pull and rebuild from within that emacs after the
>    branch cut and did a make install
> 
> 3. I ran restart-emacs in the running emacs-29 it came up and claimed
>    to be emacs 29.0.50
> 
> 4. I did C-x C-c to kill that emacs, and restarted emacs -- voila it
>    claims to be emacs 30.0.50 
> 
> So -- bug or feature?

You decide.  restart-emacs re-execs the same executable as the one in which
you invoke the command.  So basically what you see is expected when you
rebuild, I think.