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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-03-18 12:49:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2021-03-18 12:49:02 +0200 |
| commit | 216bd67a4f40a733cb139ace3af4616bc2702282 (patch) | |
| tree | 20014e3413776b6b4c09e9d8b9434d4b0ee2d74e | |
| parent | 7ae4588bb4800694d841da1684538191cb291617 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-216bd67a4f40a733cb139ace3af4616bc2702282.tar.gz | |
; * admin/make-tarball.txt: Advise to remove stale subdirectories.
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diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index 907afbbf5a9..bf682ecadf6 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. |