Fixing Bitrot, the Bzr Way

[Bill Barry]

Is there any standard place where we could fork the bzr repo and then 
present pull requests with our patches (I don't have any right now, but 
perhaps someday). Or are we still supposed to put the patches up on 
bugzilla and let you apply them after review?

Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
>     So, if you have a patch that's bitrotted, but you'd like to take 
> advantage of bzr's excellent merge algorithms instead of trying to 
> un-bitrot everything yourself, there is a way:
>
>     1. cd /path/to/your/bugzilla/dev/directory
>     2. bzr branch -rdate:'2010-01-01 12:13:14' . fix/
>        (Where "2010-01-01 12:13:14" is the date you originally wrote 
> your patch.)
>     3. cd fix/
>     4. Apply your patch (which should apply perfectly, since this 
> should be the exact code you wrote it against)
>     5. bzr commit -m blah
>     6. cd ../
>     7. bzr merge fix/
>     8. rm -rf fix/
>
>     And now if there are conflicts, you'll get the minimum possible 
> conflicts, as determined by bzr!
>
>     -Max