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emacs-27 216bd67: ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Advise to remove stale sub
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Eli Zaretskii |
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emacs-27 216bd67: ; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Advise to remove stale subdirectories. |
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Thu, 18 Mar 2021 06:49:38 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: emacs-27
commit 216bd67a4f40a733cb139ace3af4616bc2702282
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Advise to remove stale subdirectories.
---
admin/make-tarball.txt | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
index 907afbb..bf682ec 100644
--- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
+++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
or some form of "git clean -x". It's probably simpler and safer to
make a new working directory exclusively for the release branch.
+ If the working directory has subdirectories created when making
+ previous releases or pretests, remove those subdirectories, as the
+ command which updates the ChangeLog file might attempt to recurse
+ there and scan any ChangeLog.* files there.
+
Make sure the tree is built, or at least configured. That's
because some of the commands below run Make, so they need
Makefiles to be present.
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