Re: what make-dist should include [was Re: Emacs pretest 26.1.91 is out]

[Paul Eggert]

On 1/16/19 2:30 AM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> I see zero practical advantages to a switch to a "distribute everything"
> approach (which Emacs has never done, and nor when I check do eg tar,
> texinfo, coreutils); unless it will drastically simplify make-dist and
> avoid problems like the one fixed in 021f34b. If it does then I am all
> for it. :)

OK, proposed make-dist patch attached. This patch drastically simplifies 
the list of files in make-dist that needs to be maintained manually, by 
relying on Git to keep track of files under version control. This should 
help avoid problems like the one you mentioned.

0001-Make-make-dist-more-automatic.txt
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